Posted on 06/12/2021 4:22:39 AM PDT by Eddie01
His name’s not Jonah — but this Cape Cod man sure has something in common with the biblical figure now.
Commercial lobster diver Michael Packard was going about his business off the coast off Provincetown, Mass. 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.
Packard, 56, was about 35 feet below the surface near Herring Cove Beach at 8 a.m. Friday when the massive mammal tried to turn him into breakfast, the Cape Cod Times reported.
“All of a sudden, I felt this huge shove and the next thing I knew it was completely black,” Packard told the outlet. “I could sense I was moving, and I could feel the whale squeezing with the muscles in his mouth.”
Stunned, his first thought was that he’d been snapped up by a great white shark — and was done for.
Packard told the local CBS News affiliate that he thought to himself “This is it, I’m gonna die.”
“I was completely inside [the whale]; it was completely black,” Packard told the Cape Cod Times. “I thought to myself, ‘there’s no way I’m getting out of here. I’m done, I’m dead. All I could think of was my boys, they’re 12 and 15 years old.”
Experts say the whale may have been a juvenile who swallowed the man accidentally.
But when he realized he could feel no teeth, he began struggling and felt the whale shaking his head in discomfort, he said
Within 40 seconds the massive mammal spit him back out into the ocean.
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“I was diving off the coast
Didn’t consider the risk
Send lawyers, guns and money
Dad, get me out of this”
Warren Zevon! Nice!
God always gives real life signs to show us his truths
LOL. That was exactly what I was going to post...
Can humpback whales spit ?
40 seconds... not 30 seconds or a minute. Love the false precision the writer uses as if the whale was on a shot clock.
Not quite.
He was NOT 3 days and 3 nights in the heart of the whale, as the Son of Man was (in the earth) after he was crucified.
I went home with a humpback,
the way I always do.
I’m working on the rest of it.
Is the lobster diver named Jonah?
Back in the 1990s, my ex, her brother, sister in law and another couple went to P-Town. We were crossing the street when a limo with 8 Drag Queens stopped and got out near city hall. Ex’s Brother said, “Must be the City Council”. I had to laugh...
He should have called himself a lobster pirate, because we all know pirate tales are the most interesting.
Could just have been a fluke.
I humble myself before a Master. :)
Ni!
Nobody can top his fish story.
There once was a diver from Nantucket...
There once was a diver from Nantucket...
Who carried chum in a bucket
Then the whale came, he thought he was slain
So he lit up a joint and said fu@k it.
I apologize.
5.56mm
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