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There's a story that needs your immediate attention and it's about a man who was swallowed by a whale.
His name is Michael Packard, and he is an avid lobster diver with 40 years of experience, none of which involved any close whale-swallowing encounters.
Until now.
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"All of a sudden, I felt this huge shove and the next thing I knew it was completely black," Packard told the Cape Cod Times this week.
"I could sense I was moving, and I could feel the whale squeezing with the muscles in his mouth."
Packard's first thought was that he was being attacked by a great white shark, as the lobster diver often sees sharks on the job.
"I was completely inside [the whale]; it was completely black," he 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."
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