Article 5JZ99 ‘Everything went dark’: humpback whale swallows and spits out diver

‘Everything went dark’: humpback whale swallows and spits out diver

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The Cape Cod fisherman estimates he was in the beast's mouth for 30 seconds; experts say the encounter was a fluke

A commercial lobster diver who got caught in the mouth of a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod on Friday morning said he thought he was going to die.

Michael Packard, 56, of Wellfleet, told WBZ-TV after he was released from Cape Cod hospital that he was about 45ft (14 meters) deep in the waters off Provincetown when all of a sudden I felt this huge bump, and everything went dark".

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