Whale swallowed diver, didn’t like it and spat it out alive

And he commented, “Then it occurred to me, oh my God, I’m in a whale’s mouth… and he’s trying to swallow me. I thought, well this is the moment when I am going to die ”.

Regarding his state of health, he said: “I have bruises everywhere but no broken bones. I thank the Provincetown rescuers for their care and help. “

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Oddly enough there is one witness who was in the front row and that is Josiah Mayo, who accompanied Packard on the fishing trip and told the local Cod Times media that he saw the moment his partner was kicked out by the whale in the Atlantic Ocean and it was he who called the rescuers.

Jooke Robbins, a whale researcher and specialist at the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, told AFP news agency he had never heard of a similar “accident”, but “it is possible that (the fisherman ) was wrong, wrong time, ”he said.

When these whales are looking for food, “they throw themselves with their mouths open, they swallow fish and water very quickly, then they reject the water through their baleen”, which acts “like a filter”, a- he explained.

“His mouth is big enough” but “his throat is quite narrow, there is no possibility that he could swallow something that big” like a man, he added.