Over the years, this tale has been investigated many times and is largely thought to be false. The story was first published anonymously in a newspaper and went viral across America. He was discovered inside the whale’s stomach, after it had been killed with a harpoon and cut open.
The story says he was swallowed by a sperm whale and found several days later alive. There’s a famous story about James Bartley, who lived from 1870 to 1909. Their throats are large enough to feasibly fit a human and they’ve been known to swallow colossal squid, which can measure more than 30 feet long and weigh more than 1,000 pounds. However, sperm whales are a different story. Their throats can stretch to about 15 inches in diameter, so it would be difficult for a humpback whale to actually swallow a human being. They have baleen instead of teeth and feed on krill and small fish by straining large amounts of ocean water through their baleen like a sieve. In general, humpback whales are not aggressive. In 2020, kayakers in California were caught in a whale’s mouth as it was feeding and in 2019, a tour operator in South Africa had a similar experience. There have been other recent stories of people getting too close to comfort with humpback whales. This unusual ocean encounter is being called a modern-day Jonah and the Whale story, which has brought the Old Testament lore and the possibility of being swallowed by a whale back into mainstream debate. Packard was taken to hospital in a waiting ambulance suffering from a dislocated knee and soft tissue damage. Mayo rescued Packard and then radioed the shore and returned to the pier. She reported Packard’s crewman Josiah Mayo had seen the whale fling her brother into the sea after noticing some action at the top of the water. He sees them all the time out there,” said Packard’s sister Cynthia Packard. I’m done, I’m dead.’”Īt first, Packard said he thought he was inside a great white shark, but realized it was a whale after feeling around the darkness and not finding teeth.
“I was completely inside it was completely black… I thought to myself, ‘there’s no way I’m getting out of here. “All of a sudden, I felt this huge shove and the next thing I knew it was completely black,” he said in an interview with the Cape Cod Times. The Cape Cod Times reported the 56-year-old veteran diver was inside of the whale’s mouth for between 30 to 40 seconds before the whale breached, shook its head and spit Packard out. On June 11, 2021, Michael Packard, a commercial lobster diver, was on his second dive of the day when he was swallowed by a humpback whale. It looks like we’ve been seeing quite a few of these incredibly rare incidents as of late, leading experts to warn against getting too close to these majestic beasts.It’s a story of biblical proportions. The odds of such an event occurring have been cited as exceedingly rare - more specifically, a 1 in 1 trillion chance of happening. Luckily, the whale spat him back out upon realizing he was not a bunch of krill, causing bruising on his legs, but otherwise, leaving the diver unscathed (but definitely shaken up).Īlthough the woman in the viral TikTok was not actually ever inside the whale’s mouth, it’s “physically impossible” for all but one species of whale to swallow something as large as an adult human down its gullet.
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Read More: Twitch streamer runs 10k race for charity in full set of Lord of the Rings armor.Quite surprisingly, a very similar scenario purportedly went down about three months ago, after diver Michael Packard claimed he was diving for lobsters when a humpback whale appeared and swallowed him whole. Other instances of people being swallowed by whales It turns out that the kayaker wasn’t actually ever inside the whale’s mouth, at all instead, she was merely submerged beneath the water due to the whale’s movements, although the angle of the footage certainly makes it look far more dangerous. Luckily, both women emerged from the event alive and unscathed.
It turns out that this viral clip may have been taken from another video filmed nearly a year ago, when two women were kayaking in California’s Avila Beach.
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