Whale swallows man, man lives to tell tale

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Last month, 51-year-old wildlife photographer Rainer Schimpf was in the water off the coast of South Africa to document a whale feeding on sardines. But something extraordinary happened as he did that: Schimpf ended up inside the whale’s mouth. He tells his story to the BBC’s Neal Razzell.

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