What a ride!
NYP: His name’s not Jonah — but this Cape Cod man sure has something in common with the biblical figure now.
Commercial lobster diver Michael Packard was going about his business off the coast off Provincetown, Mass. when he was swallowed whole by a humpback whale — trapped in its gullet for nearly a minute before being coughed back up, according to a report.
Packard, 56, was about 35 feet below the surface near Herring Cove Beach at 8 a.m. Friday when the massive mammal tried to turn him into breakfast, the Cape Cod Times reported.
“All of a sudden, I felt this huge shove and the next thing I knew it was completely black,” Packard told the outlet. “I could sense I was moving, and I could feel the whale squeezing with the muscles in his mouth.” more here
Darn, I was going to ask if his name was Jonah! Guess I’m not so clever after all!
The whale’s name is Kamala. And yes, it does answer that question.
” I could feel the whale squeezing with the muscles in his mouth.”
…Pete Buttgieg was unavailable for comment.
That headline was a pretty mean thing to say about his girlfriend.
Meanwhile, the lobster mafia is having a meeting to discuss humpback harry, the whale assassin, and how he failed to eliminate their mutual “problem.”
Now that’s one whale of a tale. He’s a lucky man to still be alive after being swallowed whole by a whale. He’s got one heck of a whopper story to tell his grandkids about the time he was swallowed by a whale and lived to tell about it.
The difference between like and love is spit or swallow.
a sequel to ‘jaws’ perhaps?
Every anniversary of this incident, the guy should swallow a guppie. Just for revenge, like Capt. Ahab.
Love news stories like these, especially when the world seems to be going to hell in a hand basket.
Then you realize The Lord is still showing his hand. 🕊️❤️🙏
now this diver has to go find a “Ninevah” and proclaim Gods word to the unclean, and save it…..
Well that’ll be the last time that whale goes cruisin around Provincetown!!
Maybe thats whats coming. Ninevah was going to be destroyed if it didnt repent.
A Biblical Ninevah revival.
…dude probably crapped himself and that’s why the whale spat him out, because he tasted like shit…
…this comes to mind…
“Here comes a bikini whale!
Rock lobster
Rock lobster
Rock lobster
Rock lobster”
https://youtu.be/seIfZitYpYQ
B 52’s My gawd. What a cruel way to end the evening. Gotta find me some BB king to flush that out.
Tastes like chicken…
I’ll kill it fer ya. You keep the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.
Around P-Town, spitters are known as quitters.
Recreational weed is now legal on Cape Cod…
I call bullsh!t on this story.
Humpbacks are baleen feeders. Their throat isn’t big enough to swallow a human. Yea, he got caught caught in the animal’s mouth but the muscles squeezing was simply the whale’s tongue pushing the water back out through the baleen to filter out the krill and other small animals the whale eats. This diver was likely in no danger at any time. He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The only way to make that story better would be if the guy was shot out the blowhole.
I know how my Pastor’s gonna illustrate Jonah ch. 2, next time THAT passage comes up in the lectionary! 😮
This clown was in scuba gear. Where’s a witness? Someone stays on the boat as a safety measure. This story is full of holes. I say the “diver” is full of crap.
Likely smoking grass while watching Disney’s PINOCCHIO. GMAFB
Evidently the whale didn’t have dentures.