First-time-ever: Whale swallows sea-lion captured on camera

For the 27-year-old wildlife photographer and marine biologist Chase Dekker it was a lifetime moment to capture a whale swallowing a sea lion. He believes that the photo he took is the first time that happening has ever been caught on camera.
"It wasn't a huge group, only three humpback whales and about two hundred sea lions," Chase shares. "We've seen it all the way up to 100 whales with 3,000 sea lions, so it can get really insane."
Dekker said that he had about a split second while the whale was coming up to actually realise that the sea lion was on top of the whale.And then he shot a series of these rare images.
But the sea lion seems to be lucky and have a narrow escape.
According to BBC, Humpback whales don't have teeth, only baleen plates with bristles inside their mouths. They are filter feeders and the bristles filter food from water - and things like sea lions that don't belong in there. A whale will usually take less than five seconds lunge-feeding, Chase says, but in this instance sunk slowly over 15 seconds with its mouth open, giving the sea lion ample time to swim away.