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It sounds like a real-life take on Pinocchio - a US lobster diver says he was scooped into the mouth of a humpback whale Friday and yet lived to tell the story. I was in his closed mouth for about 30 to 40 seconds before he rose to the surface and spit me out, Michael Packard wrote on Facebook hours after his brush with the depths.
US lobster fisherman Michael Packard says he initially thought he was being attacked by a shark.
AAP/Buddhilini de Soyza A humpback whale tried to eat me, he added. I am very bruised up but have no broken bones.
A commercial lobster diver says he escaped relatively unscathed after nearly being swallowed by a humpback whale, in a biblical-sounding encounter that
One doesn’t have know the Hebrew or Christian bibles or the Quran to have heard the story of Jonah, who was swallowed by a whale for three days and three nights. Cynics will quickly point out that the texts actually say Jonah was swallowed bya giant fish, but apparently whales are much more fun for. Read more »