Wildlife photographer Rainer Schimpf was in the water, filming a sardine run off the coast of South Africa, when a Bryde’s whale accidentally caught him in its mouth.
The whale quickly realized Schimpf was not a sardine and loosened its grip on him, which allowed Schimpf to resurface.
Schimpf recalls the incident in this video, which shows the photos of the event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChcEb6mlEUo
You can also read about it in this Science Alert story, which explains that Bryne whales have an esophagus that is too small to swallow a human.
