![]() ![]() Michael Packard was diving off the coast of. There's, there's no possibility of that," said Jooke Robbins, whale expert at the Center for Coastal Studies. A Cape Cod lobster diver is safe, following a fluke encounter with a humpback whale that nearly made him the leviathans lunch. "So, the mouth itself can be quite large, but, the possibility of swallowing anything large is not. Humpbacks are not aggressive and Mayo thinks it was an accidental encounter while the whale was feeding on fish, likely sand lance. Crewman Josiah Mayo said he saw the whale burst to the surface and toss Packard back into the sea, according to the Cape Cod Times. Packard was 45 feet below the ocean’s surface when he suddenly felt this huge bump. ![]() Around 8 a.m., the 56-year-old lobster diver jumped from his boat off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, to check one of his traps. His sister, Cynthia Packard, originally told the Cape Cod Times that her brother broke a leg, but he said later that his legs are just bruised.Ĭharles "Stormy" Mayo, a senior scientist and whale expert at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, told the newspaper that such human-whale encounters are rare. Michael Packard has a whale of a tale to tell: He survived being in a humpback whale’s mouth early Friday morning. "The next thing I know, I saw Mike come out feet-first, his flippers flying up in the air and land in, land back in the water," said Joe Francis, a friend on a nearby boat. He was rescued by his crewmate in the surface boat. The whale was thrashing around, then surfaced, shook its head, and spit him out. ![]()
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