Little did a humpback whale know on Friday when it opened its mouth off the coast of Cape Cod to feed that it would promptly make the news for swallowing a lobster diver and spitting him out.

And I'm like 'what the f---?'” Michael Packard talks about his encounter with a humpback whale while he was diving for lobsters off Provincetown. Packard, photographed in 2022 a year after the ...

He isn’t the first person to spend time in the slimy maw of a whale. In 2021, a humpback 'swallowed' lobster diver Michael Packard off Cape Cod. Like Simancas, he was soon spat back out.

Harrowing footage shows the moment a diver narrowly avoids a confrontation with a pair of humpback whales. The video was posted by diver Timo Dersch in January to his Instagram account and ...

Commercial lobster diver Michael Packard claims he was scooped up by a humpback whale while he was out for a dive last summer in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Speaking about his experience, he told a ...

Indeed, veteran US lobster diver Michael Packard ended up inside a humpback’s mouth for around 40 seconds off Provincetown, Massachusetts in June 2021. Humpback whales can grow to as long as ...

In June 2021, Packard was taken to the hospital with soft tissue damage and a dislocated knee after he was gobbled and spit out by a humpback whale. The Cape Cod-based diver with more than 40 ...

Lobster diver Michael Packard claims that he was “swallowed” by a humpback whale off Cape Cod’s Herring Cove Beach on June 11, 2021, and recalls everything going “completely black.” ...

a second humpback whale charges past the diver with its mouth open, narrowly avoiding striking Dersch with its gargantuan maw. As the humpback whale swims through the shot, the whale's tail passes ...

A free diver in Australia was practicing deep dives and breath holds when a mother humpback whale and its calf came swimming by. As it passed, the mother whale gave Mitch Capelli a definitive ...

Michael Packard, a 56-year-old commercial lobster diver found himself inside the mouth of a humpback whale off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, in June last year. He was diving for ...

Reports of such incidents are rare but not unheard of: In 2021, a Massachusetts lobster diver said a humpback whale had scooped him up and spit him out. But, unlike the Old Testament's Jonah ...