Then, as the seconds ticked by, Packard thought, "This is how you're going to die. He was faced with an immediate struggle in the hard, shaking mouth of the whale, as his breathing regulator came out of his mouth and he had to find it. Massachusetts commercial lobster diver Michael Packard thought he was going to die after a humpback whale swallowed him into its mouth in 45 feet of water off Cape Cod. "Honestly, we all kind of thought, 'OK, this is far fetched,' but then, when we got word from the injured gentleman, we realized it was an actual incident." Harbormaster Don German said at first he didn't believe what he was hearing when he got the call about the incident. "I saw Michael kind of pop up within the mess and the whale disappeared." "It was just a huge splash and kind of thrashing around," said Mayo. Packard's crew mate Josiah Mayo was driving the boat and following him on his dive. Packard was in about 45 feet of water when "I just felt this truck hit me and everything just went dark," he said.Īt first he thought he'd been eaten by a white shark - the feared sharks have become fixtures off the coast of Cape Cod in the summer - then he realized it didn't have teeth: "I said, 'Oh my god, I'm in the mouth of a whale.'" "What a way to become a celebrity, huh?" his mother said as he gingerly sat down to speak with reporters Friday afternoon. A lobster diver was in the mouth of a humpback whale for more than 30 seconds off the Cape Cod coast.
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