Lucky Kayaker

[directmule]

The photo was taken at the entrance to Katlian Bay at the end of the road in Sitka , Alaska .
The whale is coming up to scoop up a mouthful of herring (the small fish seen at the surface around the kayak).
The kayaker is a local Sitka Dentist. He apparently didn't sustain any injuries from the terrifying experience.
The whale was just around the corner from the ferry terminal, and all the kayaker could think at that moment
in time was: "Paddle Man--really fast!"
The whale's mouth is fully open with the bottom half under the boat.
If the whale had closed his mouth before he furiously paddled away -
He might have been LUNCH!!!
Look at the picture again - He is in the whale's MOUTH!

 

[Pippen]

Ya gotta love the internet and how many times this picture has surfaced.

 

[spring time]

looks photo shopped

 

[tortuga]

Where's the wake from his kayak?

 

[Englishman]

As Spring Time and Pippen have noted this is of course photoshopped and a hoax. All the details of this old trick are described here.

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/kayak-mouth-whale.shtml

It never ceases to amaze me how many people are taken in by material like this and the many other hoaxes and misepresentations circulating via e-mail. If you have any doubt you can always find this junk debunked on Hoaxslayer and Snopes web sites and send the details back to the gullible forwarder, as above.

 

[Sharphooks]

Totally photo-shopped.

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

The internet giveth and the internet taketh away....

 

[directmule]

OK, I was wondering about that myself.......looked a little on the questionable side much like this one.