


Humpbacks are not aggressive animals, particularly toward humans, she said. "Based on what was described, this would have to be a mistake and an accident on the part of the humpback," said Jooke Robbins, director of Humpback Whale Studies at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown. I’m done, I’m dead.’ All I could think of was my boys - they’re 12 and 15 years old.” How do humpback whales eat? While in the mouth of the whale, “I thought to myself, ‘there’s no way I’m getting out of here. The Provincetown-based vessel commercial lobster diver Michael Packard was working from Friday morning off Herring Cove Beach. “I saw light, and he started throwing his head side to side, and the next thing I knew I was outside (in the water),” said Packard, who lives in Wellfleet. He estimated he was in the whale for 30 to 40 seconds before the whale finally surfaced. Outfitted with scuba gear, he struggled and the whale began shaking its head so that Packard could tell he didn’t like it. I’m done, I’m dead.’ All I could think of was my boys - they’re 12 and 15 years old.” A man was swallowed by a whale: How do we know it is true? “I thought to myself, ‘there’s no way I’m getting out of here. “I was completely inside it was completely black,” Packard said. It quickly dawned on him that he had been swallowed by a whale. Initially, Packard thought he was inside a great white shark, but he couldn’t feel any teeth and he hadn’t suffered any obvious wounds. Has a man ever been swallowed by a whale: Sperm whale swallows a Cape Cod man off Cape Verde islands 150 years ago “I could sense I was moving, and I could feel the whale squeezing with the muscles in his mouth,” he said. “All of a sudden, I felt this huge shove and the next thing I knew it was completely black,” Packard recalled Friday afternoon following his release from Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. In something truly biblical, Packard was swallowed whole by a humpback whale.
