A poor sea lion found itself in the wrong place when a photographer was trying to take pictures of a Humpback Whale in California.

Chase Dekker, the man who took the extremely rare picture, has been a wildlife photographer for almost a decade.

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Just the other day I witnessed something out on Monterey Bay I had never seen before. While the humpbacks were lunge feeding on a school of anchovies, a sea lion apparently didn't jump out of the way fast enough and got trapped inside the whales mouth! At some point the sea lion escaped and the whale seemed fine too as it continued to feed, but it must have been a strange experience for both parties! That sea lion had the true "Jonah Experience"!

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Chase said that he had never captured a shot like this ever.

Chase added that he was on a routine whale-watching boat trip last week in Monterey Bay in California when he saw a sea lion stuck on the nose of a whale.

Immediately Chase brought out his camera and started to take images of the rare event.

He said, “I didn’t even look at my camera. I just leaped up and was screaming to everyone aboard.”

As a result, Dekker managed to capture something that most wildlife photographers don’t get to see or capture every day.

Dekker captured a rare image that shows a sea lion falling into the mouth of a Humpback Whale.

In case you guys are wondering if the sea lion managed to escape, yes he did and he survived from getting eaten by a huge whale.

During an interview with National Geographic, Chase said, “As soon as I saw this photograph, I knew it may be one of the rarest shots I’ve ever taken,”

Dekker added, “Not the most beautiful, not the most artistic, but probably something I would never see again.”