👉 Un joven chileno que practicaba packrafting junto a su padre en el Estrecho de Magallanes fue accidentalmente tragado por una ballena jorobada mientras esta se alimentaba. El incidente, capturado en video, muestra cómo la ballena libera rápidamente al kayakista ileso. Según el especialista Miguel Ángel Iníguez Bessega, este tipo de accidentes son raros y ocurren cuando las ballenas confunden a los humanos con sus presas durante su técnica de alimentación con burbujas. Afortunadamente, las ballenas no tienen dientes y no se alimentan de grandes peces ni humanos.
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00:00What happened to Mercedes Mendoza in the Strait of Magallanes?
00:03Look at this image. A man doing... Look.
00:07This cetacean appears.
00:11Wow, that's crazy.
00:13He swallowed it.
00:15To the eyes, as Mrs. Lucia Salinas points out to me.
00:19In the Bible.
00:20Biblically speaking.
00:21Exactly.
00:23But how did this end?
00:24No, stop, stop, stop.
00:25Otherwise we wouldn't have told it like that.
00:27Of course.
00:28Just seconds ago, this young Chilean was inside the cetacean.
00:32He was doing pack rafting with his father.
00:36He's the one filming this video.
00:40Pack rafting is, imagine, a kayak that inflates...
00:43Dad, stop filming and help me.
00:45It's shocking.
00:46...in the sea area.
00:47And look how the whales come out.
00:48They come out as if nothing happened.
00:49As if nothing happened.
00:50Let's see, we know.
00:51The whales are hunched.
00:52I'm going to show you a little bit.
00:54No.
00:55I'm scared anyway.
00:56They don't feel anything.
00:58They don't eat krill.
00:59They don't eat meat.
01:00They don't feed on large fish.
01:01That's fine.
01:02That's why they also spit.
01:03It was disgusting, let's say.
01:04It came out quickly.
01:05Let's thank the whale.
01:06Look, Miguel Ángel Iñiguez-Besega is on the line,
01:07who is a whale and cetacean specialist.
01:08Miguel Ángel, I'm Luis Novalesio.
01:09Good day, 24.
01:10How are you?
01:11How are you?
01:12Very good day, Luis.
01:13Is this the first time you see something similar
01:14or is it less common than you think?
01:15No, no.
01:16This is the first time.
01:17This is the first time.
01:18This is the first time.
01:19This is the first time.
01:20This is the first time.
01:21This is the first time.
01:23This is an accident.
01:30I want to explain what we see.
01:35The image is a humpback whale,
01:39which is a species that is frequently
01:43seen near Magellan,
01:44and luckily also in our country,
01:49but in the specific case of this animal, what it is doing is feeding.
01:56And what we are seeing in the image is a behavior that the humpback whale does,
02:03when the whale finds a herd of prey, of small fish in this case,
02:12they start swimming underneath them and it releases the air,
02:18creating what is known as a network of bubbles.
02:23So this network of bubbles surrounds the prey,
02:27and then the animal enters, goes up through that network of bubbles,
02:36imagine that it would be like a bubble tube, and the fish stay in the center.
02:41I did not know this, that is, the whale detects the cardume,
02:45releases this oxygen and makes a kind of network of bubbles to catch the cardume.
02:54And there, poor saint in my life, was the kayakman, the man who stayed in the tube.
02:59But, let's see, because whales do not have teeth, right?
03:03Exactly.
03:04They have a kind of large brush through which the krill and crustaceans enter.
03:11Of course, it is what are called beards that hang from their upper jaw
03:16and that form as if it were a kind of comb,
03:20and then the animal what it does is, when it swallows,
03:24it filters the water through those beards and retains the food.
03:30In this case, what the animal does is swallow,
03:35it swallows, let's say, the prey, the water and the kayakman.
03:40But let's see the image that immediately releases it.
03:44And you will also notice, just before the moment
03:48when you see the image of the released kayakman,
03:52you will see that in the area the bubbles begin to appear,
03:56large bubbles on the surface.
03:59It was an accident.
04:01The whale immediately realizes that it has swallowed something that is not its prey
04:07and releases it.
04:09And later, well, the animal continues with its normal behavior,
04:13as we can also observe in the image.
04:16Now, Miguel Ángel, forgive my ignorance about this subject,
04:19but in case it swallows, let's say,
04:23the whale has the ability to swallow a human being
04:27and not return it to the surface.
04:30The question is very good.
04:32Let's see, the animal immediately, when it perceives that this is in its mouth,
04:36it will release it.
04:39It could get to swallow, let's say, a person,
04:44but no, it is not something that ...
04:48In the whales this is not registered and it has happened.
04:52That is why it is observed that the animal immediately,
04:55when it detects that there is something in its mouth that is not its food,
04:59it automatically releases it.
05:01Of course, that is, this story of thinking ...
05:05Can you get to swallow?
05:07It would be very exceptional for the whale to swallow the poor kayakman.
05:14No, no, I don't really think it ever gets to swallow.
05:18Because it realizes ...
05:20Yes, it is not the first time it happens, right?
05:22When this thing happens, one looks at it and says,
05:24let's see, did this ever happen?
05:26In 2022 there is a story of Michael Packard,
05:28who was also 30, 40 seconds and was fired by the whale.
05:3230, 40 seconds?
05:34Yes, he threw me in the air and the water fell, I was free,
05:36I stayed floating there, I couldn't believe it.
05:38And he says something important,
05:40he said something important, that person says,
05:42he was probably more scared of the whale than me.
05:45From the situation that occurred and that he had to fire him.
05:50Yes, the registered cases are nothing, they are infimum.
05:56They are very, very rare.
05:58Just as I said, this is an accident where the kayakman is,
06:04we can say, locked up in that kind of network of bubbles.
06:08Imagine that the animal comes up from below with its mouth open.
06:15But it is this, they have the ability,
06:19when they realize that they have swallowed inside their eye.