#Man swallowed by whale movie#

Jacob adds that he believes there will likely be more diving ahead and he's sure his dad won't have been put off by this experience as it's his 'life and passion'.ĭo you have a story to share? We'd like to hear all about it.

'My mate pulled me out of the water back onto the boat, thankful he was there.'Īnd after all that, he didn't even manage to find any lobsters! Oh well, guess there's always next time. 'All I saw was white water crashing around me, and the tail of it, disappearing into the water,' he said. Once out of the whale's mouth he claims he didn't get to come face to face with the creature as it disappeared right before he was pulled to safety. Michael claims he had no clue there was a whale near him at all, explaining that it 'came up behind, felt it close down, then boom.' Others wanted to know more about how he ended up in this situation, with a different person posting: 'Did you see the whale coming and just couldn’t get out of the way or did it sneak up on you?'

#Man swallowed by whale movie#

He's been answering the internet's burning questions about the bizarre ordeal - including who should play him if the incredible story is one day made into a movie (Michael says Matt Damon, his wife's vote is for Sean Penn). He said he was about 45ft down in the water when he 'felt this huge bump, and everything went dark', before eventually being spat out into the air around 30 seconds later by the 60,000lb whale.Īs The Mirror reported earlier this week, Michael thought he was going to die, but thankfully he survived mostly unscathed - with no broken bones, but some bad bruising.Īfter hitting the headlines, the 56-year-old has now taken part in a Reddit 'ask me anything' with the help of his son Jacob. Lobster diver Michael Packard recently made headlines when stated that a humpback whale attempted to turn the veteran fisherman into a big fish tale of. Michael Packard, from Wellfleet, Massachusetts, first thought he had been attacked by a shark - which are common in the Cape Cod area - but soon noticed he did not feel any teeth. A lobster diver who thought he was going to die after a humpback whale mistook him for food and tried to swallow him has revealed his friends now call him 'Jonah' and he is likely to keep on diving in the future.