In this story, a man was swallowed by a whale. And no — it didn’t take place in the pages of the Old Testament to a man named Jonah. It happened to a lobster diver named Michael Packard off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Packard had set off early in the morning on Friday, June 11 to dive for lobsters with his fishing partner, Josiah Mayo. After a disappointing first haul, Packard dove under the water to try again just before 8 a.m.
But as he scoured the sandy bottom of Herring Beach Cove, something suddenly struck him from behind.
“All of a sudden, I felt this huge shove and the next thing I knew it was completely black,” Packard later recalled. Read the full story here ▶
