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Man who was swallowed alive by whale spoke out thereafter

A man who spent the longest moment of his life inside the mouth of a whale has lived to tell the story.

In 2021, veteran angler Michael Packard was off the shoreline of Massachusetts, US, in look for certain lobsters.

While he was only a couple of meters from the ocean bottom, he was unexpectedly swallowed up by a humpback whale and everything went dark.

Michael Packard was out diving for lobsters when the whale swallowed him

"Out of nowhere, I felt this colossal push and the following thing I realized it was totally dark," he reviewed to The Cape Cod Times.

"I could detect I was moving, and I could feel the whale crushing with the muscles in his mouth."

In the wake of understanding that the whale had really gulped him, he said: "And afterward I understood: 'Good gracious, I'm in a whale's mouth and he's attempting to swallow me. This is all, I'm going to bite the dust'.

"I pondered internally, 'it's absolutely impossible that I'm leaving. I'm finished, I'm dead.' All I could imagine was my young boys — they're 12 and 15 years of age."

Michael figured his most obvious opportunity with regards to endurance is move around as much as could reasonably be expected, trusting it would let him go.

Fortunately it did.

"I saw light, and he began tossing his head side to side, and the following thing I realized I was outside (in the water)," he said.

In spite of the fact that it presumably felt like longer, he was assessed to have been in the whale's mouth for somewhere in the range of 30 and 40 seconds.

After some treatment, Michael was set free from Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis.

Subsequent to investigating Michael's occurrence, specialists figure that the main explanation he endure is on the grounds that humpbacks, for the most part, are not brutal - Meaning on the off chance that he was gulped by a shark - it would have been bad.

Jooke Robbins, the director of Humpback Whale Studies at the Center Coastal Studies, told Cape Cod News: "In view of what was portrayed, this would need to be an error and a mishap with respect to the humpback.

"It isn't something I have heard occurring previously. So many things would have needed to end up winding up in the way of a taking care of whale."

Charles 'Stormy' Mayo, a senior researcher and whale expert at the Center for Coastal Studies, concurred: "Individuals direct dive on them (humpbacks) in the tropics, not here.

"In those spots I'm not mindful of a solitary occurrence of individuals generally having issues with them. Michael (Packard) is a brilliant fellow and an excellent diver.

"For that to happen to him, you can be certain he did all that he should do."