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Humpback whale gulps and spits out Cape Cod lobsterman
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Michael Packard: "Oh my God, I'm in a whale's mouth and he's trying to swallow me. This is it, I'm going die"
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Humpback whales can grow to as long as 50ft (15m) and weigh about 36 tons. According to the World Wildlife Fund, their global population is about 60,000.
Mr Packard, 56, told the Cape Cod Times he and his crewmate took their boat, the Ja'n J, off Herring Cove on Friday morning where conditions were excellent, with water visibility at about 20ft.
He told WBZ-TV News that after jumping off the vessel in scuba gear into the water, he "felt this huge bump and everything went dark".
'He's trying to swallow me'
He thought he had been attacked by one of the great white sharks that swim in the area, "and then I felt around and I realised there was no teeth".
"And then I realised: 'Oh my God, I'm in a whale's mouth and he's trying to swallow me. This is it, I'm going die'."
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57450685
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Humpback whale gulps and spits out Cape Cod lobsterman (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jun 2021
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Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)1. A whale of a tale!!!!
Botany
(70,483 posts)2. Who here hasn't been in humpback whale's mouth?
Goonch
(3,606 posts)3. Not the first time
babylonsister
(171,056 posts)4. Thanks! Great video. nt
ShazamIam
(2,570 posts)5. A real Johna
mdbl
(4,973 posts)6. My thought too
so that story forgot to tell you the whale spit him out too because he's not the desired cuisine. Kinda takes all the magic out of it LOL
heckles65
(549 posts)7. Can you imagine what the whale said to the other whales?
"Ugh! I had a human in my mouth, and he tasted terrible! I spit him out!"
Yavin4
(35,432 posts)8. Esp. a human from Cape Cod
Chock full of toxins.
wnylib
(21,424 posts)9. So, at first he thought it was a shark because
they swim around those waters.
Why was HE swimming among sharks and whales?
I guess I'm just a fresh water person myself (Lake Erie). Not familiar with shark and whale waters. Don't wanna be, either.