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Mr Simancas recounted his 
 to journalists back on 
 land. He said: "Something hit me from behind. All this happened in a 
. Something dark…enveloped me, and a slimy 
 brushed my face." He continued: "I started to sink… I was surrounded by 
. I realized that I was in something's 
, and I had been eaten." The Guardian newspaper reported: "For a few 
 moments, Adrian's fate was in the 
 of the 40-ton [mammal]." Adrian said his close 
 with the whale would not stop him from 
 rafting trips.