March 21, 2019
Into the Whale's Mouth!
Timothy Birdnow
A modern day Jonah?
https://www.livescience.com/64969-whale-almost-swallows-man.html
Fortunately the great beast spit the bad tasting fellow out (how insulting).
Also, the whale was a v Bryde's whale, which is a batch feeder, meaning it strains small fish from water, so it could never have swallowed the man. But can you imagine the terror of finding yourself inside a whale's mouth? Yikes!
A modern day Jonah?
https://www.livescience.com/64969-whale-almost-swallows-man.html
While photographing a mass of sardines off South Africa's coast last month, a dive tour operator ended up on the wrong side of a whale — the inside.
Rainer Schimpf, 51, was in the water with a "bait ball," a swirling school of sardines surrounded by predators, when he suddenly felt the world go dark. He quickly realized he'd been scooped up by a whale, he told The Today Show.
"I held my breath," he said in an interview with Today, expecting the whale to pull him down. "I mean there was no other thing I could do," he added. "I mean, you can't fight a 15-ton animal."
Rainer Schimpf, 51, was in the water with a "bait ball," a swirling school of sardines surrounded by predators, when he suddenly felt the world go dark. He quickly realized he'd been scooped up by a whale, he told The Today Show.
"I held my breath," he said in an interview with Today, expecting the whale to pull him down. "I mean there was no other thing I could do," he added. "I mean, you can't fight a 15-ton animal."
Fortunately the great beast spit the bad tasting fellow out (how insulting).
Also, the whale was a v Bryde's whale, which is a batch feeder, meaning it strains small fish from water, so it could never have swallowed the man. But can you imagine the terror of finding yourself inside a whale's mouth? Yikes!
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