South Africa: A whale swallowed a photographer and made it alive

"Everything happened very quickly, it was dark and I felt the pressure on my thigh, at that time, I knew that a whale m". had caughtexplains the diver in a video in which he tells everything that happened.

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Rainer Schimpf

Schimpf said that he was holding his breath "instinctively". I supposed the whale would spit on me in the Indian Ocean, "he told the British newspaper. The telegraph. And so, after a few seconds, the whale released the 51-year-old man a few meters from the coast, safe and sound, beside the school of fish caught in the same act.

The photographer has not lost his calm. "There is no time to fear in such a situation, you must use your instinct ", he said.

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His wife, Silke and a photographer came to document the scene and the images show the two legs of Shimpf coming out of the whale's mouth, a rare and difficult to photograph specimen that feeds on small fish and crustaceans.

The diver, once safe, was quick to return to the water."We checked if the material was good, it had no bones or broken ribs, everything was fine"he counted.