![]() ![]() “I think it was a surprise to all involved.” “We don’t really see humpback whales doing anything like this normally,” Robbins told CNN. In the end, Packard said, he was “all bruised up,” but whole.īiologist Jooke Robbins, the director of Humpback Whale Studies at Provincetown’s Center for Coastal Studies, said the unusual encounter was most likely an accident. Packard was pulled out of the water by a crewmate, rushed ashore, and taken to a nearby hospital. ![]() “I just got thrown in the air, and landed in the water and I was free and I just floated there.” “All of a sudden he went up to the surface and just erupted and started shaking his head,” Packard said. “There was no getting out of there.”Īfter what Packard estimated to be about 30 seconds in the mammal’s mandibles, he said the whale surfaced quickly and spit him out. I’m going to die.’ And I thought about my kids and my wife,” he said. “One of the things that went through my mind was just, ‘Oh, my God, what if he does swallow me, and here I am, I’m breathing air, and I’m going to breathe in this whale’s mouth until my air runs out?’” he said. Packard, an experienced diver, told WBZ that he still had his breathing apparatus on in the whale’s mouth. Teenager in critical condition after breaching whale lands on fishing boat Teenager remains in a critical but stable condition after his fishing boat was hit by a breaching humpback whale NSW Police
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