"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. A commercial lobster diver who got caught in the mouth of a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., on Friday morning said he thought he was going to die. Michael Packard, 56, said he was swallowed and then spit out by a massive humpback whale on Friday in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
"I saw Michael kind of pop up within the mess and the whale disappeared." Packard said he spent 30 seconds trapped in the whales mouth Credit: Packard Family. "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.'" A commercial lobster diver who got caught in the mouth of a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod on Friday morning said he thought he was going to die. 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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