Cape Cod fisherman OK after whale gulps him down, spits him out

[Nevilledog]

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Sean Philip Cotter
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A Cape Cod fisherman is recovering after miraculously emerging without serious injuries after spending nearly a minute in the maw of a humpback whale who mistook him for a snack

Cape Cod fisherman OK after whale gulps him down, spits him out
A Cape Cod fisherman is recovering after miraculously emerging without serious injuries after spending nearly a minute in the maw of a humpback whale who mistook him for a snack.
bostonherald.com

https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/06/11/cape-cod-fisherman-ok-after-whale-gulps-him-down-spits-him-out/

A Cape Cod fisherman is recovering after miraculously emerging without serious injuries from spending nearly a minute in the maw of a humpback whale who mistook him for a snack.

“I was lobster diving and a humpback whale tried to eat me,” fisherman Michael Packard wrote on Facebook.

This salty tale begins innocuously, with the 56-year-old sea captain Packard on Friday morning looking for lobsters near Provincetown, where he’s from. He dove into the ocean to check a trap — when a passing whale gulped him down.

“He was in a whale’s mouth for 30 to 40 seconds, and then he was spit out,” his mother, local painter Anne Packard, told the Herald on Friday afternoon.

*snip*

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. It's obvious we don't taste like chicken

[msfiddlestix]

2. well now, this dude has some stories to publish!

who knows, maybe one of them will be a classic...

[Nevilledog]

4. Apparently he also survived a plane crash in the past.

[msfiddlestix]

12. LOL. Why does that Not surprise me? Some fellows just have all the luck!

[Solly Mack]

3. He'll always have the story no one can top while drinking at the bar.

Any bar. Anywhere.

[Nevilledog]

5. People will just think he's a drunk......lol

[Solly Mack]

7. Probably.

[MineralMan]

6. Humpback whales are krill feeders

They couldn't eat a human, anyhow. It just scooped him up and spit him out. "Not food!$

[sprinkleeninow]

8. Jonah he lived in a whale...

Bronski Beat • 'It Ain't Necessarily So'

[htuttle]

9. "I feel like Jonah in the belly of the whale..."

[tavernier]

10. Whale watching in Cape Cod on research boat...

One of the top three highlights of my life, the day we saw so many breaching and playing, twins they thought were gone, others thought to have died.

Intelligent, beautiful creatures. ❤️

[Paladin]

11. Surprised this doesn't happen more often.

Lots of whales, directly offshore of Provincetown.

Glad this guy made it through, undigested.

[Nevilledog]

13. Interview with the dude

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[Hassler]

14. He has an actual whale tale to tell.