Killer whale jumps on kayak.

[MedicBob]

Anyone know if the whale is OK?

 

[awal]

:Q

 

[MySoS]

Originally posted by: BlinderBomber

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Fingers

Originally posted by: Rudee

Originally posted by: KMurphy

Originally posted by: Rudee
Actually, the whale landed beside the kayak, not on it. Still a close call.

So how do you explain the kayak bobbing up like a cork several seconds later?

Undertow caused by the massive displacement of water. Think of the whale as a sinking ship. Many sailers are drowned by undertow, while many others "pop up" to the surface, like this person did.

Do you know how big of an object it would take to create an undertow capable of keeping a kayak under that long. Those things have a whole lot more floatation than you would think.

yea, but direct contact would have crushed him, esp since he was sitting in a kayak.. probably snapped his back at the very least. ever sit in one?

Looks to me like the whale landed on the front of the kayak, and that's how it dragged it under and didn't kill the guy inside.

If the whale landed on any part of the kayak it would have broke it, that whale is around 6 or 7 tons.

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: MySoS

Originally posted by: BlinderBomber

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Fingers

Originally posted by: Rudee

Originally posted by: KMurphy

Originally posted by: Rudee
Actually, the whale landed beside the kayak, not on it. Still a close call.

So how do you explain the kayak bobbing up like a cork several seconds later?

Undertow caused by the massive displacement of water. Think of the whale as a sinking ship. Many sailers are drowned by undertow, while many others "pop up" to the surface, like this person did.

Do you know how big of an object it would take to create an undertow capable of keeping a kayak under that long. Those things have a whole lot more floatation than you would think.

yea, but direct contact would have crushed him, esp since he was sitting in a kayak.. probably snapped his back at the very least. ever sit in one?

Looks to me like the whale landed on the front of the kayak, and that's how it dragged it under and didn't kill the guy inside.

If the whale landed on any part of the kayak it would have broke it, that whale is around 6 or 7 tons.

this reminds me of the episode of Mythbusters when they tried to disprove the assumption that a large body sinking will drag you under. they used a boat, but they couldn't get it to pull the guy under. anyone else see it?

 

[iamme]

btw, now we know what Star Jones' husband feels like when she jumps into the sack. :Q

*rimshot

 

[0roo0roo]

yea i saw that. but if the whale had done anymore then glance off the side off that kayak..he'd be dead big time. maybe the fin sorta rubbed or got caught on a bit dragged it down or something.


<--been kayaking several times

 

[n7]

:Q

 

[LuNoTiCK]

I don't know whether to call him lucky or unlucky.

 

[sharkeeper]

Looks fake to me. The background looks too familiar. I have submitted this one to the f-vid folks that will give me an answer in a few days.

Cheers!

 

[MustangSVT]

what kind of konglish is...

"??? ???! ???!!!" it just doesnt make sense

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: yellowfiero
wow

 

[Meractik]

what a whale of a tail.. har har har

 

[cirthix]

wow

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: bleeb
The dude in the video is KOREAN...

He's saying, "What is this?? a person is dead, he's killed, hurry and call him!"

on his cell phone?

 

[djheater]

As to why, this is my guess.

A guy in a kayak slapping paddles on the water is acting a LOT like an injured large fish. The whale thought he had spied some sashimi,.

<---not a marine biologist.

 

[Gravity]

Nice vid.

 

[tami]

wow crazy

 

[Analog]

Its amazing the height that the whale achieved.

 

[Ogg]

:thumbsup:

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: KMurphy

Originally posted by: Rudee
Actually, the whale landed beside the kayak, not on it. Still a close call.

So how do you explain the kayak bobbing up like a cork several seconds later?

Kayaks float. That's the whole point of a boat. Any boat will bob to the surface one way or another as long as the hull remains watertight. Kayakers wear a neoprene spray skirt that forms a watertight seal around the cockpit. Any paddler worth his salt will at least wait until the turbulence stops before he wet-exits or rescues himself, so he held his breath until the boat got to the surface.

If the whale hit him directly, it probably would have damaged the boat, or the paddler. Kayaks are built tough, but they aren't THAT tough. I don't think he got hit directly, but I'm not sure what carried him under far enough that it took the boat a few seconds to get back to the surface.

That said, this guy is a pretty solid paddler. Despite all my years of kayak surfing and recovering after getting hit by big waves, I don't think I'd be able to keep my head on straight long enough to roll back up. I probably would have just waited until things calmed down, yanked the spray skirt and bailed the eff out of there. Then again, I usually use a sit-on-top so I don't have that much confidence in my roll.

OTOH, doing a wet-exit on the open sea could potentially mean not being able to bail the boat out enough to get it back to shore; I'm usually close enough to the sand to drag a swamped boat back in, so bailing out is at most a PITA and tires you out. Little danger of losing the boat or drowning.

Either way, props to that paddler. What a guy.

 

[cHeeZeFacTory]

dam cool

 

[awal]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/kayak.asp

 

[deftron]

That's a commercial for Gatorade or something ...

 

[Brutuskend]

Body SLAM!

 

[OulOat]

Originally posted by: adrianwalters
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/kayak.asp

Good job adrianwalters