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Another cameraman got gobbled by a Bryde's whale while he was filming a bait ball off the coast of South Africa a couple years ago. His wife took photos of him while he was half in the whale. Fortunately, the whale spat him out a few seconds later. As soon as he got out of the whale, he swam up to his wife to ask, "did you get it?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChcEb6mlEUo (worth the watch)
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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.
Not that everything needs to be made into a film, but i could see maybe a B movie with the title "The Luck Vampire" be mildly (or wildly) successful. And the actor can only be one person :)
We eat fish all the time and nobody bats an eye. A whale eats a person and it’s a big deal? Humans and their hubris…
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Yeah but everyone thinks that lions are badass but they fail like 77% of their hunts so they're more like huge failures.
To be fair, what I'm usually hunting I don't eat, but I fail much more than 77% of the time. Probably most men do.
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?
Well, the article says that EMS transported him to the hospital, so it would seem likely that he had something happen to him, or if he'd been completely uninjured it would have raised red-flags either on scene, or later at the hospital. Beyond that, whether or not the event unfolded exactly as he described or not is something that probably only he (and the whale) will ever really know.
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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!"
The esophagus of that kind of whale is too small for human to get through, and it's not a toothed whale so it can't really chew its food to make it fit. It only wants to eat things that it can swallow whole. 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 i…
My understanding is that the whale's mouth balloons open for feeding during a pass, blocking their forward vision. This is a significant cause of them getting stuck in nets.
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Teela Brown from Ringworld. She was the result of a selective breeding program intended to create the luckiest human alive... but it turned out the _real_ lucky ones were all the "failures" who did _not_ get recruited for an impossibly dangerous mission.
Luck seems to me to be a zero sum game, so if someone is lucky, someone else must be unlucky. It's like a new character on What We Do In The Shadows as a luck vampire.