Jonah

[George K]

https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2021/06/11/humpback-whale-catches-michael-packard-lobster-driver-mouth-proviencetown-cape-cod/7653838002/

Packard was swallowed whole by a humpback whale.

“All of a sudden, I felt this huge shove and the next thing I knew it was completely black,” Packard recalled Friday afternoon following his release from Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. “I could sense I was moving, and I could feel the whale squeezing with the muscles in his mouth.”

Initially, Packard thought he was inside a great white shark, but he couldn’t feel any teeth and he hadn’t suffered any obvious wounds. It quickly dawned on him that he had been swallowed by a whale.

“I was completely inside; it was completely black,” Packard said. “I thought to myself, ‘there’s no way I’m getting out of here. I’m done, I’m dead.’ All I could think of was my boys — they’re 12 and 15 years old.”

Outfitted with scuba gear, he struggled and the whale began shaking its head so that Packard could tell he didn’t like it. He estimated he was in the whale for 30 to 40 seconds before the whale finally surfaced.

“I saw light, and he started throwing his head side to side, and the next thing I knew I was outside (in the water),” said Packard, who lives in Wellfleet.

[Copper]

What about Pinocchio?

[George K]

@copper said in Jonah:

What about Pinocchio?

That's just made-up shit.

[LuFins Dad]

So is he going to go to Mosul (Nineveh)?

[Mik]

Saw that on the news this morning. Some things in life you just cannot prepare for.

[brenda]

It's a whale of a tale! That has to leave some interesting impacts on how you see the world.

[Horace]

I can't believe he let that whale get away with it. You have to teach them a lesson or they'll just do it again. I'd have taken that whale by the throat and punched him right in the face a few times if it were me. That whale is lucky it wasn't.

[Loki]

Some events are in fact one in a trillion, this is apparently one of them.