A humpback whale swallowed a lobster diver whole and spit him out alive: ‘It tried to eat me’
“I was inside it. I was inside its mouth,” Packard, 56, told Mayo. “It tried to eat me.”
Packard’s harrowing tale is rare and unheard of among the experienced divers of Provincetown, Mass. Humpback whales don’t harm people on purpose, said Mayo, who worked on whale-watching boats as a teenager and whose father is a premier whale scientist.
Mayo said his father and his colleagues believe the only logical explanation was that the whale swallowed Packard by accident.
I haven't done my own research on the available info, but seems like something fishy did actually happen. 🤔, a whale intakes how many gallons of sea water, before straining out chum? Idk.