Massachusetts lobster diver injured when caught in whale's mouth

[jpak]

https://www.pressherald.com/2021/06/11/massachusetts-lobster-diver-injured-when-caught-in-whales-mouth/

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — A commercial lobster diver was seriously injured Friday morning when he was caught in the mouth of a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod, his sister said.

Michael Packard, 56, of Wellfleet, was taken to Cape Cod Hospital with at least one broken leg, his sister, Cynthia Packard, told the Cape Cod Times.

“He was swallowed by the whale, he was in his mouth for about 20 seconds,” she told the newspaper in a phone interview.

Cynthia Packard got details of the encounter off of Provincetown from her brother’s crewmate, who at first feared it was a great white shark.

[Ocelot II]

1. He's changing his name to Jonah.

[Under The Radar]

2. 20 seconds is a good rodeo time but Jonah holds the record of 3 days

[catbyte]

3. How's the whale?

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. Wierd.....seems like the wrong location to diver for lobsters. Coastal diving would seem to be

the best location for bagging lobsters.....and less chance of interacting with large sea type ocean travelers.

[Budi]

5. I'd have died of fear. After all the fish I've eaten, to think it ends like this!

😬

[Vinca]

6. Just heard that on one of the Boston stations. They had an interview with him.

Amazing, amazing story. It sounds like he was spit out by the whale, otherwise he would have been supper.

[Chainfire]

7. He will have a story to tell for the rest of his life.

[jpak]

8. And lots of free drinks

Yup

[skypilot]

11. Yep. The best "fish story" ever.

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[malaise]

10. Amazing

K & R

[DFW]

12. Just last night I was in a virtual session about whales and this was mentioned

For the first time in 51 years, I attended a couple of « events, » if you call them that, from the high school I graduated from. One was a presentation from an alumnus who was building a whale sanctuary off the coast of Nova Scotia. Attending was a member of the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, MA. He said that, based on decades of observing whales off of Cape Cod, the most likely scenario is that the whale thought a human that far below the surface was in distress, and was trying to rescue him. Their thought capacity is far greater than most of us can ever imagine.