Lobster Diver Survives After Nearly Being Eaten by Humpback Whale
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On the high seas, And this one is a whale of a tale. His name's not Jonah. But this Cape Cod Mansour has something in common with the biblical figure now Commercial lobster diver Michael Packard was going about his business off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, when he was swallowed whole by a humpback whale trapped in its gullet for nearly a minute before being coughed back up. Packard 56 was was about 35 ft. Below the surface near Herring Cove Beach at eight A.m. yesterday when the massive mantle mammal tried to tournament to breakfast, quote. All of a sudden I felt this huge shove and the next thing I knew I was it was completely black. I could since I was moving, and I could feel the whale squeezing with the muscles in his mouth. Stunned. His first thought was that he'd been snapped up by a great white shark and was done for Packard set. Yeah, Packard said he thought to himself. This is it. I'm going to die. Uh, quote. I was completely inside. It was completely black. I thought to myself, there's no way I'm getting out of here. I'm done. I'm dead. All I could think of was my boys. They're 12 and 15 years old, but when he realized he could feel no teeth He began struggling and felt the whale shaking his head and discomfort within 40 seconds. The massive mammal spit him back out into the ocean. I saw light and he started throwing his head side to side and the next thing I knew I was outside back in the water. My first thought was. I can't believe I got the situation and my second was how injured I might have been his boating, Powell salt water spraying As a sea creature surfaced and salt Packard ejected, He plucked him out of the sea and rushing to the hospital, where he was treated for soft tissue damage to his