Ο Michael Packard had dived in search of lobsters when he reached the huge mouth of the mammal, where he remained for at least 30-40 seconds, at the famous Cape Cod in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
After the witness seconds that seemed a century, the whale spat on him, leaving me with only one displaced knee.
In accordance with with the BBC, 56-year-old Pagard and a colleague boarded their boat on Friday morning to go fishing. The weather was great and the visibility was impressive.
But as soon as the diver fell into the water, he felt "a huge blow and everything went dark." At first he thought he had been attacked by a large white shark, one of those swimming in the area, "then I realized he had no teeth at all. Then I realized: My God, I am in the mouth of a whale trying to swallow me. "That was it, I'm dying." Larger whales tend to feed by opening their mouths wide to swallow as much prey as possible, such as fish or krill, leading marine scientists to speculate that what happened to Mr Packard was probably purely accidental, an expert told the local newspaper. Cape Cod Times that there has never been a record of a whale swallowing a human.