DIVER’S TOO-CLOSE WHALE ENCOUNTER…
A US SCUBA-DIVER spent what must have seemed the longest half-minute of his life inside a whale’s mouth on the morning of 11 June.
Commercial fisherman Michael Packàrd, 56, escaped with severe bruising, especially to his legs, after being accidentally engulfed by the feeding humpback off Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
“I was lobster-diving and a humpback whale tried to eat me,” the former abalone diver wrote on a community Facebook page. “I was in his closed mouth for about 30 to 40 seconds before he rose to the surface and spit me out. I am very bruised up but have no broken bones.”