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“My first thought was I can’t believe I got out of that situation. “I saw light, and he started throwing his head side-to-side and the next thing I knew I was outside ,” Packard said. Within 40 seconds the massive mammal spit him back out into the ocean.Īustralian teen in coma after being crushed by whale
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Getty Imagesīut when he realized he could feel no teeth, he began struggling and felt the whale shaking his head in discomfort, he said Facebook Experts say the whale may have been a juvenile who swallowed the man accidentally. All I could think of was my boys, they’re 12 and 15 years old.” Michael Packard is a lobster diver in Massachusetts. “I thought to myself, ‘there’s no way I’m getting out of here. “I was completely inside it was completely black,” Packard told the Cape Cod Times. Packard told the local CBS News affiliate that he thought to himself “This is it, I’m gonna die.” Stunned, his first thought was that he’d been snapped up by a great white shark - and was done for. “I could sense I was moving, and I could feel the whale squeezing with the muscles in his mouth.” “All of a sudden, I felt this huge shove and the next thing I knew it was completely black,” Packard told the outlet. Friday when the massive mammal tried to turn him into breakfast, the Cape Cod Times reported. Packard, 56, was about 35 feet below the surface near Herring Cove Beach at 8 a.m. when he was swallowed whole by a humpback whale - trapped in its gullet for nearly a minute before being coughed back up, according to a report.
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His name’s not Jonah - but this Cape Cod man sure has something in common with the biblical figure now.Ĭommercial lobster diver Michael Packard was going about his business off the coast off Provincetown, Mass. Woman dramatically saved from sinkhole moments before car swallowed Pennsylvania teen dies after getting pulled into wood chipper: officials South Carolina woman dies after being impaled by beach umbrella Park-goer in serious condition after hit by tree limb in NYC playground