'Oh My God, I'm in the Mouth of a Whale': What It's Like Being Swallowed by a Humpback
A Massachusetts man had a whale of a tale to tell Friday -- though it's one plenty of people thought was more of a fish tale.
But Cape Cod commercial lobster diver Michael Packard's injuries and his diving mate's own account back Packard's story that he was briefly swallowed by a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod.
He recounted the harrowing -- and painful -- moment he realized that he was in the closed mouth of one of the world's biggest creatures. Experts said the encounter was rare, and likely a complete accident.
Packard was in about 45 feet of water when "I just felt this truck hit me and everything just went dark," he said.
At 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.'"
Packard's crew mate Josiah Mayo was driving the boat and following him on his dive.
"It was just a huge splash and kind of thrashing around," said Mayo. "I saw Michael kind of pop up within the mess and the whale disappeared."
Harbormaster Don German said at first he didn't believe what he was hearing when he got the call about the incident.
"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."
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Had to be terrifying! 
