AVILA BEACH, Calif. -- Two whale watchers had a close encounter while kayaking off the coast of Avila Beach, California, that they will likely never forget. Julie McSorley and Liz Cottriel were ...

When a group of kayakers was approached by a whale in Australia on July 13, they got the impression that the whale was trying to tell them something. Then they noticed that it was tangled up in rope ...

A kayaker who was briefly swallowed by a humpback whale says it was 'probably out of curiosity'. Adrián Simancas was kayaking with his father, when the whale surfaced, trapping the young man in its ...

A humpback whale briefly swallowed a 24-year-old kayaker last Saturday during a father-son excursion out on the icy waters around Chile’s southernmost Patagonia region. The terrifying moment, captured ...

The Endless Thread team talks with a man who was briefly swallowed by a whale. His father caught the event on video. Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson report. This segment aired on April 10, 2025.

In the POV film "The Islands and the Whales," whale meat once meant survival but now it could endanger lives ...

Amory Sivertson is a senior producer for podcasts and the co-host of Endless Thread. Ben Brock Johnson Director, Digital Audio Ben Brock Johnson is the director of digital audio at WBUR and co-host of ...