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.
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