Jonah in the Bible, might not be the only one to have an encounter with a whale in the river.
South African man came in contact with a whale that almost made a meal out his legs.
Rainer Schimpf, 51, was swept into the mouth of a large Bryde’s whale off the coast of the South African town of Port Elizabeth while snorkeling and filming a sardine run last month.
“Looming up out of darkness below came a Bryde’s whale shooting up into the ball of fish, gulping all in its path,” he told AFP, adding that his legs were hanging from the mammal’s mouth during the incident at the end of February.
Schimpf’s wife, Silke, and a photographer watched on in horror from their boat, chartered to watch the sardine run, which creates a marine feeding frenzy off Africa’s southern coast.
“I felt some pressure around my waist and I immediately knew what had happened. [It] accidentally included me in its mouth together with its main meal – the sardines.”
Schimpf remains undeterred following his narrow escape, telling AFP that “if I was to be reborn, I would like to come back as a whale”.
Well, this confidence is on another level and Schimpf is unbothered at all. He actually is thinking of a rematch.