Packard was still wearing his scuba gear and breathing apparatus inside the whale's mouth, which he said was completely dark. I'm in a whale's mouth, and he's trying to swallow me.' ' 'And then I realized, 'Oh my God, I'm in a whale's mouth. 'Then I felt around, and I realized there was no teeth and I had felt, really, no great pain,' he said. Packard told WBZ-TV that he was about 45 feet down in the water when he suddenly felt 'this huge bump and everything went dark.' He initially feared he had been attacked by a shark. While he's still recovering from soft tissue damage, Packard told the newspaper he'll be back in the water as soon as he heals. He walked - albeit with a limp - out of the hospital that afternoon. The Cape Cod Times reports that Packard was pulled out of the water by his crewman and rushed back to shore, where he was transported to Cape Cod Hospital. 'I am very bruised up but have no broken bones.' 'I was in his closed mouth for about 30 to 40 seconds before he rose to the surface and spit me out,' Packard later wrote on Facebook. Michael Packard, 56, said in local interviews and on social media that he was diving off the coast of Provincetown, Mass., on Friday morning when the whale suddenly scooped him up. A commercial lobster diver says he escaped relatively unscathed after nearly being swallowed by a humpback whale, in a biblical-sounding encounter that whale experts describe as rare but plausible.

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