SA diver survives after being swallowed by the whale
SA diver, " It was an extremely dangerous life-threatening moment, it was a special moment."
Port Elizabeth (Web Desk) - Diving is not an easy sport, more so when you too deep into the oceans. A South African diver has lived to tell his miraculous escape from the mouth of a giant marine predator.
51-year-old Rainer Schimpf had a lucky escape from a whale s mouth recently. The shocking incident has even been caught on a photograph which shows his half body dangling out of the huge whale s mouth.
Schimpf was shooting footage of a sardine run off the coast near Port Elizabeth Harbor in South Africa when he was gobbled up by a whale. It was an encounter of few seconds before the whale spit it out and Schimpf swam for survival.
Talking about the dangerous encounter he quoted, "I felt some pressure around my waist, I immediately knew what was happening. It was only a few seconds before the whale realized its mistake and opened its mouth to spit me out."
Schimpf remained calm and composed in whatever little encounter it was because he knew he could not take on the large mammal.
In a report he said, "I was just holding myself and bracing myself and calming myself down not to be panicked, and it worked out." Although the next thing in his mind was death in the deep ocean.
Although it was an extremely dangerous life-threatening moment, he has called it a special moment. It was a Bryde whale which weighs upto 30 tons. Schimpf s wife was also in the nearby boat and she was the incident as it happened.
