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Gulf Today
16-02-2025
- Science
- Gulf Today
VIDEO: Humpback whale gulps kayaker off Chile, then spits him out
A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker in southern Chile, before spitting him out unharmed, an amazing escape that was all captured on video. Adrian Simancas was paddling off the Patagonian city of Punta Arenas on Saturday when the giant baleen surged out of the water swallowing him and his yellow kayak whole. Five seconds later a stunned Simancas bobbed to the surface, as the whale's dorsal again emerged above the surface of the frigid grey water. "I thought he'd swallowed me!" Simancas exclaimed. The entire remarkable episode was caught on camera and quickly went viral after being posted on social media by his father, Dell Simancas, who can be heard shouting "Relax! Relax!" to his understandably unrelaxed son. "Grab it, grab it" the father adds, instructing his son to keep a hold of the kayak to stay afloat while the whale continued to swim behind him. "Relax, relax, I'm coming," the father says. "Let's go to shore." The 24-year-old son told Chile's TVN channel he saw something "blue and white passing close to my face, and it was like on one side and above me. 'Suddenly, he shot out' "I didn't understand what was happening and then I sank. I thought it had eaten me." His father said he turned around and "didn't see anything, I didn't see Adrian. "That was the only moment of fear I really had, because I didn't see him for like three seconds. And suddenly he shot out," he told TVN. Experts said the whale could never have swallowed the kayaker, as humpbacks have small throats. "It seems that the kayak was right in the whale's feeding patch (of krill or fish)," marine biologist Maria Jose Perez, of the University of Chile, told AFP. That is why it is seen "emerging to the surface sideways, with its mouth open." "These events are very rare and have happened in the presence of silent vessels, such as kayaks," she said, explaining that the whale probably did not notice the small boat. Agence France-Presse
CNN
15-02-2025
- CNN
Incredible survival tales of animal encounters, from sharks to bears to bison
In travel news this week: robot legs take off in China, the Italian influencer who mobilized her own TikTok army, plus one of the most terrifying whale encounters since Jonah. A Chilean father recently captured the moment a humpback whale briefly swallowed his son while kayaking in Patagonia. Miraculously, 24-year-old Adrian Simancas emerged unharmed. 'I thought … that I was going to die,' Simancas told CNN. In this video, two American tourists share another harrowing story of the day they were attacked by a shark in the Bahamas. Although unprovoked shark attacks in the Bahamas are rare, it's at least the third reported shark attack involving Americans since 2023. It's not just at sea that tourists need to be vigilant, of course. A video of a dangerous encounter with a territorial bison went viral back in 2022, but would you know what to do if one of the shaggy beasts had you in its sights? Here are our bison survival tips if you get yourself in a pickle. Finally, a Massachusetts man visiting Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park was in a bad way last year when a grizzly bear took a 'good chomp right to the bone' on his leg. Here's what happened next. From animal encounters to Chance Encounters, CNN Travel's hit series about love and friendship is now a new CNN podcast. Host Francesca Street chronicles marvelous real-life stories of incredible travel connections, starting with an Italian woman and an American man who met by chance in London's Trafalgar Square in 1984. If you don't want to end up like the man who was fined $200 this month for putting his phone on speaker in a French train station, you'll want to use headphones in order to listen. Our partners at CNN Underscored, a product reviews and recommendations guide owned by CNN, have this guide to the best true wireless earbuds of 2025. After you've finished the podcast, there are still several years of the weekly Chance Encounters column you can catch up on, such as the tale of Arthur 'Chip' Gaudio Jr., who hadn't seen his high school crush in years. Then he traveled to Sweden to visit her. China has been working on some innovative ways to get around – from the prototype for what could be the world's fastest high-speed train to robot legs to make mountain-climbing easier. Yes, tourists are tackling the 5,000-foot-tall Mount Tai in Shandong Province using high-tech exoskeletons to make hiking a breeze. And you thought electric bikes were fancy. Then there's the Comac C919, China's first homegrown passenger jet and the country's answer to the Airbus A320. Here's what it's like on board. China is also building the world's largest artificial island airport, Dalian Jinzhou Bay International off the country's northeast coast. Its operators aim to handle 80 million passengers per year, with the first phase due to open in 2035. Some young Chinese people, however, are preferring to go back to basics. The so-called 'iron butt' travelers are ditching planes to travel long distances by bus and train – no matter if it wreaks havoc on heinies. Vegemite, an Australian delicacy with the unpromising base material of leftover brewers' yeast, is so loved in the country there's even a museum dedicated to it. It's a short day trip from Melbourne, the cosmopolitan city that's become a global food and drink powerhouse. Influencer mobilizes TikTok 'hordes' to 'invade' ski resort. It's part of an ongoing beef between Rita De Crescenzo and the Italian ski resort industry. One of Paris' most popular attractions is closing for five years. Some say it's a 'serious mistake.' This country's Cold War paranoia left it riddled with bunkers. Now they're coming back to life. IKEA names its furniture for Swedish destinations. This American took a road trip to visit them.
CNN
15-02-2025
- CNN
Incredible survival tales of animal encounters, from sharks to bears to bison
In travel news this week: robot legs take off in China, the Italian influencer who mobilized her own TikTok army, plus one of the most terrifying whale encounters since Jonah. A Chilean father recently captured the moment a humpback whale briefly swallowed his son while kayaking in Patagonia. Miraculously, 24-year-old Adrian Simancas emerged unharmed. 'I thought … that I was going to die,' Simancas told CNN. In this video, two American tourists share another harrowing story of the day they were attacked by a shark in the Bahamas. Although unprovoked shark attacks in the Bahamas are rare, it's at least the third reported shark attack involving Americans since 2023. It's not just at sea that tourists need to be vigilant, of course. A video of a dangerous encounter with a territorial bison went viral back in 2022, but would you know what to do if one of the shaggy beasts had you in its sights? Here are our bison survival tips if you get yourself in a pickle. Finally, a Massachusetts man visiting Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park was in a bad way last year when a grizzly bear took a 'good chomp right to the bone' on his leg. Here's what happened next. From animal encounters to Chance Encounters, CNN Travel's hit series about love and friendship is now a new CNN podcast. Host Francesca Street chronicles marvelous real-life stories of incredible travel connections, starting with an Italian woman and an American man who met by chance in London's Trafalgar Square in 1984. If you don't want to end up like the man who was fined $200 this month for putting his phone on speaker in a French train station, you'll want to use headphones in order to listen. Our partners at CNN Underscored, a product reviews and recommendations guide owned by CNN, have this guide to the best true wireless earbuds of 2025. After you've finished the podcast, there are still several years of the weekly Chance Encounters column you can catch up on, such as the tale of Arthur 'Chip' Gaudio Jr., who hadn't seen his high school crush in years. Then he traveled to Sweden to visit her. China has been working on some innovative ways to get around – from the prototype for what could be the world's fastest high-speed train to robot legs to make mountain-climbing easier. Yes, tourists are tackling the 5,000-foot-tall Mount Tai in Shandong Province using high-tech exoskeletons to make hiking a breeze. And you thought electric bikes were fancy. Then there's the Comac C919, China's first homegrown passenger jet and the country's answer to the Airbus A320. Here's what it's like on board. China is also building the world's largest artificial island airport, Dalian Jinzhou Bay International off the country's northeast coast. Its operators aim to handle 80 million passengers per year, with the first phase due to open in 2035. Some young Chinese people, however, are preferring to go back to basics. The so-called 'iron butt' travelers are ditching planes to travel long distances by bus and train – no matter if it wreaks havoc on heinies. Vegemite, an Australian delicacy with the unpromising base material of leftover brewers' yeast, is so loved in the country there's even a museum dedicated to it. It's a short day trip from Melbourne, the cosmopolitan city that's become a global food and drink powerhouse. Influencer mobilizes TikTok 'hordes' to 'invade' ski resort. It's part of an ongoing beef between Rita De Crescenzo and the Italian ski resort industry. One of Paris' most popular attractions is closing for five years. Some say it's a 'serious mistake.' This country's Cold War paranoia left it riddled with bunkers. Now they're coming back to life. IKEA names its furniture for Swedish destinations. This American took a road trip to visit them.
CNN
15-02-2025
- CNN
Incredible survival tales of animal encounters, from sharks to bears to bison
In travel news this week: robot legs take off in China, the Italian influencer who mobilized her own TikTok army, plus one of the most terrifying whale encounters since Jonah. A Chilean father recently captured the moment a humpback whale briefly swallowed his son while kayaking in Patagonia. Miraculously, 24-year-old Adrian Simancas emerged unharmed. 'I thought … that I was going to die,' Simancas told CNN. In this video, two American tourists share another harrowing story of the day they were attacked by a shark in the Bahamas. Although unprovoked shark attacks in the Bahamas are rare, it's at least the third reported shark attack involving Americans since 2023. It's not just at sea that tourists need to be vigilant, of course. A video of a dangerous encounter with a territorial bison went viral back in 2022, but would you know what to do if one of the shaggy beasts had you in its sights? Here are our bison survival tips if you get yourself in a pickle. Finally, a Massachusetts man visiting Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park was in a bad way last year when a grizzly bear took a 'good chomp right to the bone' on his leg. Here's what happened next. From animal encounters to Chance Encounters, CNN Travel's hit series about love and friendship is now a new CNN podcast. Host Francesca Street chronicles marvelous real-life stories of incredible travel connections, starting with an Italian woman and an American man who met by chance in London's Trafalgar Square in 1984. If you don't want to end up like the man who was fined $200 this month for putting his phone on speaker in a French train station, you'll want to use headphones in order to listen. Our partners at CNN Underscored, a product reviews and recommendations guide owned by CNN, have this guide to the best true wireless earbuds of 2025. After you've finished the podcast, there are still several years of the weekly Chance Encounters column you can catch up on, such as the tale of Arthur 'Chip' Gaudio Jr., who hadn't seen his high school crush in years. Then he traveled to Sweden to visit her. China has been working on some innovative ways to get around – from the prototype for what could be the world's fastest high-speed train to robot legs to make mountain-climbing easier. Yes, tourists are tackling the 5,000-foot-tall Mount Tai in Shandong Province using high-tech exoskeletons to make hiking a breeze. And you thought electric bikes were fancy. Then there's the Comac C919, China's first homegrown passenger jet and the country's answer to the Airbus A320. Here's what it's like on board. China is also building the world's largest artificial island airport, Dalian Jinzhou Bay International off the country's northeast coast. Its operators aim to handle 80 million passengers per year, with the first phase due to open in 2035. Some young Chinese people, however, are preferring to go back to basics. The so-called 'iron butt' travelers are ditching planes to travel long distances by bus and train – no matter if it wreaks havoc on heinies. Vegemite, an Australian delicacy with the unpromising base material of leftover brewers' yeast, is so loved in the country there's even a museum dedicated to it. It's a short day trip from Melbourne, the cosmopolitan city that's become a global food and drink powerhouse. Influencer mobilizes TikTok 'hordes' to 'invade' ski resort. It's part of an ongoing beef between Rita De Crescenzo and the Italian ski resort industry. One of Paris' most popular attractions is closing for five years. Some say it's a 'serious mistake.' This country's Cold War paranoia left it riddled with bunkers. Now they're coming back to life. IKEA names its furniture for Swedish destinations. This American took a road trip to visit them.
