What If Someone Was Accidentally Swallowed by a Whale? Scientific Explanation

Have you ever wondered what would happen if an alive person was swallowed by a large animal or a large fish, especially a whale? You may have seen many times in movies that when a person is swallowed by a large animal, then he sees some kind of reddish area inside the animal as if going down into its inner throat, and after reaching into its big stomach become half-submerged into its half-digestive food. But what if someone really disappears inside a whale? It would be the most terrifying experience. But if you've never seen a whale from the front, you might not even know how huge it looks, like a monster. 

The blue whale is the largest creature in the world and merely its huge tongue weighs as much as an elephant. There is so much space in its mouth that it can fit 400-500 humans in its mouth simultaneously. But blue whales do not have teeth, as they are toothless. There is another species of whale called the sperm whale, which is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator. So suppose you are in the ocean and you are swallowed by a sperm whale, then the first thing that will happen is that the whale will press you hard in its mouth with its impressive set of teeth. Due to which your body will be pierced at different places and bleeding starts immediately, as each tooth is approximately about the length of an average chef knife.

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And even if somehow you escaped from here, then you will begin to descent down its throat where you will feel that you are having difficulty in breathing, due to lack of oxygen and an increase in methane gas. After that, the muscles of the whale's throat contract in and out to help push you down, leading you to its stomach. But even before reaching the stomach, hydrochloric acid will begin to touch your body, due to which your skin will start melting or burning. And gradually you will reach its stomach, where you will feel like you have entered a room full of acids and your body will continue to melt and become a complete liquid until only your bones will remain.

But will this ever happen or has it already happened with someone. Actually, whales have no interest in eating humans, they may attack humans for their own protection, but it has not been found that they have any intentions to attack humans, as there is no such documented and verified case has ever been found. There are many people who have claimed that they have spent many hours inside the whale, the name of one such person is James Bartley, a 19th-century sailor who claimed to have been swallowed whole by a sperm whale and found alive even after spending several hours in its stomach. But no one knows if this story was really true.