"Honestly, we all kind of thought, 'OK, this is far fetched,' but then, when we got word from the injured gentleman, we realized it was an actual incident. Harbormaster Don German said at first he didn't believe what he was hearing when he got the call about the incident. Fifty-seven-year-old commercial lobster diver Michael Packard had been. miraculously survived being gulped down by a humpback whale and staying trapped in its gullet for nearly a minute before being coughed. "I saw Michael kind of pop up within the mess and the whale disappeared." A lone lobster diver was swallowed whole by a massive humpback whale, but this modern-day Jonah lived to tell about it. A man diving for lobsters off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass. "It was just a huge splash and kind of thrashing around," said Mayo. Packard's crew mate Josiah Mayo was driving the boat and following him on his dive. Packard was in about 45 feet of water when "I just felt this truck hit me and everything just went dark," he said.Īt first he thought he'd been eaten by a white shark - the feared sharks have become fixtures off the coast of Cape Cod in the summer - then he realized it didn't have teeth: "I said, 'Oh my god, I'm in the mouth of a whale.'" Friday, veteran lobster diver Michael Packard entered the water for his second dive of the day. The TEN explores his story, looks at previous whale encounters and explains why it's no surprise the animal spat him out. A man lived to tell a whale of a tale after spending at least 30 seconds in the mouth of a humpback.
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