Unbelievable! Lobster Diver Miraculously Survives After Being Swallowed Alive By Humpback Whale

You have to incredibly lucky to survive after being swallowed by a whale. There is near zero chance of that happening, but Michael Packard can count himself very fortunate to be alive.

Packard, a lobster diver, was going about his business as usual off the coast off Provincetown, Massachusetts, on Friday when he was swallowed whole by a humpback whale.

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He said he was out diving for lobsters off Herring Cove Beach, when he suddenly found himself inside a whale.

"All of a sudden, I felt this huge shove and the next thing I knew it was completely black," Packard, a longtime lobster diver, told the Cape Cod Times. "I could sense I was moving, and I could feel the whale squeezing with the muscles in his mouth."

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Stunned, he first thought he had been swallowed by a great white shark, but then noticed he did not have any apparent wounds. He estimated he was inside the mammal for 30 to 40 seconds.

He said he was thinking "there's no way I'm getting out of here. I'm done, I'm dead."

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"Then all of a sudden [the whale] went up to the surface and just erupted and started shaking his head. I just got thrown in the air and landed in the water," Packard told CBS affiliate WBZ. "I was free and I just floated there. I couldn't believe... I'm here to tell it."

His crewman saw water spraying as the sea creature surfaced and Packard was ejected, the Cape Cod paper reported.

He plucked Packard out of the sea, and rushed him to a hospital for treatment. Packard survived the incident with only bruises.

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