If they’re so intelligent I think they’d turn their heads for a moment to check. You can’t just go eating any damn thing in the ocean. Isn’t healthy.
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I hadn’t thought about that. I guess they are like birds that way.
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The truly curious thing is that nine out of ten people putting the news story out there said the whale “swallowed” the diver. If the whale had swallowed the diver we would not be hearing his side of the story.
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Right. Unless this guy was Agent K and the whale swallowed his blaster.
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Yeah or Jonah and the lord got him out when he made the whale belch.
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Well, if the guy were Agent K or the Lord intervened he might in either case be unsure about saying so.
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Fred Flintstone, possibly ?
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Ignorance of whale anatomy. Humpbacks are filter feeders. They have this big filter gadget in the top of the mouth (baleen hair). They open their mouths wide to suck in water, then close their mouths to push the water out through the baleen, and eat all the small stuff trapped there. Just guessing here, but it sounds like the diver got sucked in when the mouth opened and was expelled on the outflow, never got very far inside.
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We’re all just guessing, since the whale presumably would be either unwilling or unable to explain itself, but God knows I’ve seen many a trout grab something that was going by in the stream and spit it out again. I saw one grab a whole large leaf, like a maple or tulip poplar, and then spit it out again. Part of the gig.
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Yeah trout are really good at spitting out my flies. hahahahaha
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I think you’re right, from the sound of it:
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Join the club. They do it for a living.
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Hahahahahahahahaha -
They’re paid by staying alive so, yeah.
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I would encourage all the professional communicators with the good verbal skills and all that to listen to this dude who dives into the water and grabs lobsters for a living saying the whale was trying to swallow him and reflect on how he can use the language with more commonsense accuracy than you boneheads who mostly said he was in fact “swallowed” by the whale. Idiots.
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Seriously, though, imagine finding yourself in the mouth of creature large enough for you to be there and wondering if it’s a shark or what, feeling around for teeth and finding none, and realizing it’s a whale. It was actually very poignant when he talked about his thoughts of his wife and kids. We often say “It all happened so fast” but it didn’t happen so fast that he didn’t think about how his death was probably imminent. And then—spat out. That. Is. Deep. Even if it happened on the surface.
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Not so subtle reminder that we are all just nutrients.
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While we’re on fishing stories… When I lived in South Florida I used to fish from a sea kayak out in the mangroves. One time on the SW side of Everglades National Park I was looking for some good eatin’ fish like Snook or Redfish with a spinner, and a huge Tarpon took it. Jumped straight up in the air, monstrous thing, big enough to tip the kayak over if I had tried to fight it. One more jump and he spit the bait out while I was scrambling for a knife to cut the line. They’re harmless otherwise. It’s cool to see a school of these prehistoric things with “silver dollar scales” swimming under the kayak.
I don’t kayak fish up here in the PNW coastal waters. The water is too damn cold and the fish are too damn deep.
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I count them as a catch and long distance release. I’ve perfected the technique with barbless hooks.
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