Whale Nibbles on Kayaker. Again.

It's been a little over a year now since I was last kayaking in the ocean, off the coast of Cape Town, and the whole point of the outing was to kayak alongside these darling little dolphins. Which we did, and it was amazing.

So I will never not be captivated by videos that fit into this very specific niche: Whale eats a kayaker and spits them out.

Just a fluke: whale spits out kayaker in incident captured on camera

‘I thought I was dead,’ said the kayaker, who was let go by humpback off the Chilean coast after a few seconds

The GuardianAssociated Press in Punta Arenas

I shared a first-person write-up in Slate a year and a half ago.

When I think back on zooming around on the water, I cannot begin to tell you how never, not once did it cross my mind that a whale could gobble us up. I'm fairly confident I never even thought about that Slate article. And it probably wasn't a possibility based on where we were, seeing a video like this reminds me of my very sensible fear of the ocean.

Not for nothing, the guy filming this perhaps the calmest man in what could have been an emergency? He doesn't react or say a thing until talking to the kayaker after he resurfaces—just gives out reassurances and instructions to get back on the kayak. Next-level stuff.