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Kayaker discusses moment he was briefly swallowed by whale: "I thought I had died"

When Adrián Simancas went out kayaking with his father Dell Simancas in Chile's Strait of Magellan, he didn't expect to get so close to a humpback that he could touch it — or end up in its mouth. One minute he was looking at his father's camera and the next thing he knew, "I thought it had already eaten me and swallowed me."
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