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Port Elizabeth tour operator ends up in a Blyde's whale's mouth and survives

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While photographing the sardine run underwater, Rainer Schimpf suddenly found himself inside the mouth of a Blyde's whale. Luckily the whale realised its mistake and he lived to tell the tale.
12 March 2019 17:14
by Anne Sewell
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