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Many of us know the biblical story of Jonah who visited in the belly of a whale. Moreover, in the world there are many legends that tell, how huge sperm whales easily swallowed fishermen. True, to a modern person it all seems incredible, just fabulous.
But it’s not for nothing that they say that any fairy tale has real events. About whales that can swallow a person in the sea, the legends weren’t so fantastic, and it confirmed a recent case with a diver Rainer Schimpf from South Africa who visited in the jaws of a whale-whale, and only by some miracle managed to stay safe and sound.
All this happened in the Indian Ocean, 40 kilometers from the city. Port Elizabeth Group of divers, which included Rainer filmed an interesting moment as a huge school of sardines moved in side of Cape Town. Suddenly the water around them literally began to boil, a whale emerged from the depths of the sea, swallowing hundreds of fish on the go, among which was an unlucky diver – this way Schimp and fell into the huge jaws of a marine animal. The main thing is that he whale, feasting on sardines, did not even notice how he grabbed at the same time person.
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Here is how, much later, the diver commented on what had happened. Barcroft TV:
At first I didn’t even understand anything, there was just light – and not became him. In addition, I felt that my thigh had clearly hit some strong trap, and there was no way out of it opportunities. And the very next moment I realized that I just got into fall to a whale. I was well aware that minke whale at any moment can go deep, dragging me along. In this case, or he weaken the grip – and I will be able to break out and swim out, or the animal will drag me into such an abyss, from where I can’t get out. But anyway the main thing was not to panic. This saved me.
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Rainer Schimpp – an experienced diver, behind him 15 years like this deep work, so he just took a little more air in lungs and began to wait. Soon, the whale loosened his grip, and the man managed free yourself from this creepy mouth.
At the same time, his friends could not do anything to somehow help a friend. They just filmed what was happening in the shower prayed for the minke to release his prey. Anything undertaking in this case was useless and dangerous: the whale should was to calm down, otherwise he would just go deep – and then write gone …
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As a result, Rainer escaped with only a slight fright, namely a slight, because, as he later admitted to television reporters, even plainly I did not have time to get scared. Experts specify that the whale is not in the power to swallow a person – he has too narrow a throat for this pass. However, he could cripple or even kill a diver, for example, with their powerful jaws or having gone to such a depth that has become would be fatal to humans.
However, whales are considered very intelligent marine animals. Must believe, and this one immediately realized that something fell into his mouth strange – far from sardines. And since the minke could see other divers, it seems, easily realized that in his mouth – human. Apparently, that’s why he quickly loosened his grip and allowed Rainer to free himself …
