The whale seems to have survived. So there's that.

Yeah, that's addressed in the fine article as well:

  > For years, he was an abalone diver on the West Coast in
  > an area with great white sharks that have a history of
  > attacking divers; he lost some friends to the predators.

Not that everything needs to be made into a film, but i could see maybe a B movie with the title "The Luck Vampire" be mildly (or wildly) successful.

And the actor can only be one person :)

It's called Intacto actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intacto

In a large group of people, by chance alone we should expect some to be lucky multiple times.

I guess that's life in a quasi-infinite expanse.

There’s already a Donald Duck story like that. Some guy comes to Duckville, and Gladstone Gander is completely terrified of him because.