“There was no time for fear or any emotion.'
. “I knew instantly what had happened. I knew that a whale had come and taken me and I instinctively held my breath, assuming that it would dive down again and spit me out somewhere in the depths of the Indian Ocean.”, can dive for five to 15 minutes and can reach depths of up to 1,000 feet.South African dive tour operator Rainer Schimpf was swimming off the coast when he was accidentally swept into a whale's mouth.
A photographer who witnessed the dramatic scene from a nearby boat immediately began snapping away, capturing everything but Schimpf’s legs vanishing inside the whale. Fortunately, almost as soon as the unfortunate gulp began, Schimpf said, the whale released its jaw, allowing him to slip free to the surface.
Schimpf and witnesses around him described it as a lucky break, likely stemming from a misunderstanding.“Whales are no man-eaters,” witness Claudia Weber-Gebert in an interview. “This was no attack. It was no fault of the whale. They are really sensitive, they are gentle giants, and it was just an accident.”“It was an interesting experience for me but surely nothing I’d like to do again,” he told Barcroft Animals. “I don’t think I had a whale of a time, but I now have the inside knowledge of a whale which nobody else has.”
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