Video: Huge whale swallows man, then spits him out

A video of a humpback whale accidentally swallowing a man in a kayak and then spitting him out has gone viral on the internet. 

The video shows Adrián Simancas of Chile kayaking with his father, Dell, in Bahía El Águila near the San Isidro Lighthouse in the Strait of Magellan when a humpback whale surfaced, engulfing Adrián and his yellow kayak for a few seconds before letting him go unharmed. 

The father kept on filming while telling his son to remain calm. Adrián told Associated Press that he thought he would die. "I thought I was dead. I thought it had eaten me, that it had swallowed me.”

Even after the whale spat him out, he remained afraid that the huge animal would hurt his father. However, the whale nonchalantly swam away.