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What’s the purpose of your response? It clearly wasn’t meant as a claim that one can decide on matters of internal whale anatomy in a split second.
Introspection about a useless pedantic response that is also mentioned in the article, while the diver still thought he was never getting out
So a brother and sister claim he got swallowed by a whale and spit out seconds later and we just obviously believe them? Can someone shed more light on what evidence there is or any eyewitnesses attesting that this actually happened and that it isn't a prank by a couple of siblings reliving father Geppetto?
Maybe the lobster diver was supposed to join Extinction Rebellion in Nineveh but rebelled against it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I just chartered a whale watching tour out of Provincetown the day prior. Our Captain said there’s only been one humpback near by so far and we followed him/her around for a few hours. About half way through a few massive whale watching boats show up. I’ve been on a handful of tours like this before and know there are some rules in place but honestly it was shocking to me how aggressive those other boats were. The wh…
I was on a whale watching tour years ago when the captain noticed a smaller boat tailing us. It appeared to be an affluent family that had chartered the boat to get a closer view of whales. Our captain would kill the engine when in the vicinity of a whale, and we would drift a bit. It was nice because it would get quiet and you could track their movements better. The boat tailing us wasn’t doing the same thing and ca…
Edit: found the boats based on their names https://whalewatch.com/
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He is saying his "luck" skill is maxed out, so he is +10 while others could be having a real -10 of it.
maybe he sucks up all the available luck in the area, a kind of luck vampire, and everyone else dies because out of luck! I'd write the story but evidently we are already background in it.
And the actor can only be one person :)
I wonder what the whale felt. Would it be swimming around telling its disgusted friends a cetacean equivalent of: "So I was just picking up strawberries in the backyard and all of a sudden this giant winged cockroach appears out of nowhere and before I know it that goddamn thing is in my mouth !!! Dammit I can still taste it. It's something you can't forget..."
Another article I read said that the whale deliberately surfaced, and that these whales typically get along with humans, so it's possible it was very aware of what was happening and was trying to save his life after it accidentally swallowed him. So I suspect the conversation was more about "I almost killed a human! Oh noes!"
They are going to try to spit out anything they swallow that is bigger than their normal food. My guess would be that it surfaced because that means less water resistance when trying to shake the large non-food item out of its mouth.
It may have been aware that it was a human, but I have some doubts. If it saw that a human (or really anything larger than it can eat) was amidst the prey it was about to make an eating pass on I'd expect it to either wait for the large thing and prey to separate or would switch to a different target. It would only try to eat that prey if it didn't see the human.
When those whales start their eating run their eating apparatus expands to take in a lot of prey (they often eat schools of small prey). When it expands the whale can no longer see what is in front of it. Finding a human (or other large thing) in its mouth during/after a food run would come as a complete surprise to it. I doubt that its sense of feeling inside the mouth is sufficiently discerning to tell a human from any other similar sized animal or from an inanimate object.
It may be smart enough to reason that there were humans in the general area and that it didn't see any other large animals and that it was an area that it knew didn't have any large inanimate objects and so infer that the thing it got most likely is a human, but I'd expect at that point it is too busy thinking "THERE'S SOMETHING BIG IN MY MOUTH!" and "HOW THE HECK DO I GET RID OF THIS!!!". Reasoning about what it was would come after it deals with that.
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I mean if you swim in whale's proximity and fly in sketch planes, crazy shit is bound to happen to you. The real tragedy is the stories there is no one left to tell. As always true wisdom is found in country songs: If the Phone Don't Ring, You'll Know It's Me -Rusty Ford -- My Truck, My Dog, and You
Swimming near whales isn’t unsafe at all. They’re not particularly aggressive, a lone human is too small to worry about, and we operate on completely different sections of the food chain. This was more akin to getting stepped on by a giraffe that didn’t see you there. Total accident.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBpttbTA908 "Jonah and the Grampus"
Go vegan.
A whale eats a person and it’s a big deal? Humans and their hubris…