Shadowing-Übung: What If You Were Swallowed ALIVE by a 60-Foot Sperm Whale? - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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Something is lurking in the water.
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Do you see it?
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Close calls like this happen with whales more often than you might expect.
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And although the people in these videos got away relatively unscathed, there's no denying that they were just meters away from being a whale's lunch.
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But what would happen if they hadn't been so lucky?
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Could a human body survive being swallowed by a whale?
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Has it ever happened before?
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If you've never seen a whale up close, it's hard to comprehend just how monstrous they can really be.
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To put it in perspective, the blue whale is the largest animal on the planet.
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Its tongue alone weighs as much as an elephant, and it can fit anywhere between 400 and 500 people in its mouth.
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But we wouldn't have to worry about one of these guys swallowing us anytime soon, because their anatomy makes it nearly impossible.
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Instead, we should be more concerned with their smaller cousins, sperm whales.
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In 1891, reports emerged that a man had been swallowed by one of these whales.
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And although he lived to tell the tale, he would never be the same again.
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According to the story, James Bartley was swallowed when a whale attacked his ship.
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And he wasn't retrieved until the following day.
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When the crew found and killed the whale, they quickly brought it on board their ship and cut it open, revealing an unconscious but very alive James Bartley.
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His face and arms were bleached white, and he was blind, all thanks to the stomach acids of the whale.
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However, as the years went by, people started poking holes in this story, and questioned whether James had really been swallowed by a whale.
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I mean, wouldn't the stomach acids do more damage than just bleaching his skin?
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Well, with the power of science, we took a closer look, and we quickly discovered that if you get swallowed by a whale,
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coming back out with shiny white skin would be the least of your worries.
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Okay, so the first thing you'd have to worry about once you
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were swallowed would be getting shredded to pieces by the sperm whale's impressive set of teeth.
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Each tooth is approximately 20 cm long.
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That's about the length of an average chef knife, and whales have anywhere from 40 to 50 of these.
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Let's say you're lucky enough to make it past all of them.
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Next, you'd begin your descent down the throat.
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Not only would it be dark and slimy down here, but you'd also find it hard to breathe, due to the lack of oxygen and an increase in methane gas.
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As the whale's throat muscles constricted in and out to help force you down, you'd also start to feel hydrochloric acid beginning to eat away at your skin.
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I know what you're thinking.
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We just got into this whale, and James Bartley's story already seems pretty fishy.
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Well, you're not wrong, but what would be the fun in stopping now?
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So next, you'd be dropped into the first and largest of the whale's four stomachs.
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You'd probably be in there for a while, but on the bright side, you might have some light in the form of a bioluminescent squid or two being noshed on after your arrival.
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Sperm whales love neon flying squid.
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You'd better enjoy this brief light show, because after this, you'd just be tossed from one stomach to the next, with the acids breaking down almost all of your body,
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until you're just a bunch of bones being unceremoniously ejected from the whale's anus.
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So yeah, it's pretty safe to say that there's no way you could be swallowed whole by a whale, and live to tell the tale.
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Sorry, James you may have been able to fool people in the 1890s, but we're on to you now.
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As vast as they are, and as monstrous as they might seem to us, whales actually have no interest in eating humans.
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And if they could talk, they would probably make a point of telling us that.
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But that's a topic for another WHAT IF.

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Wichtige Vokabeln und Sätze

  • Unscathed – unverletzt. Beispiel: "The people got away relatively unscathed."
  • Anatomy – Anatomie. Beispiel: "Their anatomy makes it nearly impossible."
  • Hydrochloric acid – Salzsäure. Beispiel: "Hydrochloric acid begins to eat away at your skin."
  • Bioluminescent – biolumineszent. Beispiel: "A bioluminescent squid or two."
  • Unceremoniously – unzeremoniel. Beispiel: "Ejected unceremoniously from the whale's anus."

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