Luckily for the 51-year-old, Bryde’s whales aren’t known for eating humans and it just spat him back out. 9News
South African man Rainer Schimpf was diving in waters off Port Elizabeth last month when a Bryde’s whale got a little too close for comfort.
The 51-year-old was with a group photographing sharks when he said the water began to churn around him and everything went dark."I instantly knew it was a whale because there was a pressure on my hip which increased slightly to a point where it stopped," he said. "Had it been a shark it would have been two of me and I don't think that I would have seen anything again. "Related Articles
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