{"id":562971,"date":"2021-06-14T08:07:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T12:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=562971"},"modified":"2021-06-14T08:07:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T12:07:28","slug":"was-a-cape-cod-lobsterman-really-swallowed-by-a-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/was-a-cape-cod-lobsterman-really-swallowed-by-a-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"Was A Cape Cod Lobsterman Really Swallowed By A Whale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwas-a-cape-cod-lobsterman-really-swallowed-by-a-whale%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=562971&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/whale-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>It was a fantastical story, biblical even.<\/p>\n<p>According to Michael Packard, a Cape Cod lobster diver, he was, like Jonah, swallowed by a whale.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s his story,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capecodtimes.com\/story\/news\/2021\/06\/11\/humpback-whale-catches-michael-packard-lobster-driver-mouth-proviencetown-cape-cod\/7653838002\/\"> according<\/a> to the Cape Cod Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis vessel, the \u2018Ja\u2019n J,\u2019 was off Herring Cove Beach and surrounded by a fleet of boats catching striped bass. The water temperature was a balmy 60 degrees and the visibility about 20 feet. Licensed commercial lobster divers literally pluck lobsters off the sandy bottom, and as Packard, 56, dove down Friday morning, he saw schools of sand lances and stripers swimming by.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But then something happened.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"23\">\n<p>\u201cAll of a sudden, I felt this huge shove and the next thing I knew it was completely black,\u201d Packard recalled Friday afternoon following his release from Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. \u201cI could sense I was moving, and I could feel the whale squeezing with the muscles in his mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Packard thought he was inside a great white shark, but he couldn\u2019t feel any teeth and he hadn\u2019t suffered any obvious wounds. It quickly dawned on him that he had been swallowed by a whale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was completely inside; it was completely black,\u201d Packard said. \u201cI thought to myself, \u2018there\u2019s no way I\u2019m getting out of here. I\u2019m done, I\u2019m dead.\u2019 All I could think of was my boys \u2014 they\u2019re 12 and 15 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Packard, 57, said he was inside the whale for 30 to 40 seconds before it surfaced, shook its head side to side and \u201cthe next thing I knew I was outside,\u201d back in the water. Packard was released from the hospital hours later, mostly unscathed.<\/p>\n<p>News agencies across the world have covered the story, but a new report cast the supposed incident in new light.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least one doctor at the Cape Cod hospital that treated the lobsterman who claims he was nearly swallowed by a humpback expressed skepticism Saturday,\u201d The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/12\/cape-cod-lobstermans-whale-of-a-tale-sounds-fishy-experts\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2019He reportedly ascended from a 45-foot depth in 20 to 40 seconds and didn\u2019t have any evidence of barotrauma?\u2019 scoffed the Cape Cod Hospital emergency room doc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barotrauma is \u201ccaused by rapid or extreme changes in air pressure, especially affecting enclosed cavities within the body such as the middle ear (otic barotrauma), the sinuses (sinus barotrauma), and the lungs (pulmonary barotrauma),\u201d MedicineNet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/barotrauma\/definition.htm\">reports<\/a>. Said the Post: \u201cA person traumatized by such an encounter should expect more serious injuries, such as hearing loss, because of the sudden change in water pressure from that depth, noted the physician.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others were also skeptical. \u201c\u2018People who are in the fishing industry, and people who know whales, are finding this hard to believe,\u2019 a Bay State lobsterman, who has fished the area for 44 years, told The Post. \u2018It\u2019s a first-ever that this would happen.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lobsterman added: \u201cFor a guy to be in the middle of that giant school of fish corralled by a whale doesn\u2019t make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a fantastical story, biblical even.According to Michael Packard, a Cape Cod lobster diver, he was, like Jonah, swallowed by a whale.Here\u2019s his story, according to the Cape Cod &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280186,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/whale-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Was A Cape Cod Lobsterman Really Swallowed By A Whale?","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/whale-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Was A Cape Cod Lobsterman Really Swallowed By A Whale?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}