Michael Packard was in the whale's closed — Transcript

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1. 0:00mass lobster diver survives after a
2. 0:02humpback whale tried to eat me
3. 0:05commercial lobster diver was injured
4. 0:07when he said he was swallowed by a
5. 0:09humpback whale off the coast of cape cod
6. 0:11friday
7. 0:12michael packard was in the whale's
8. 0:14closed mouth for 30 40 seconds
9. 0:16he said in a facebook post to a
10. 0:18provincetown
11. 0:20massachusetts community page a man lived
12. 0:23to tell a whale of a tale after spending
13. 0:25at least 30
14. 0:26seconds in the mouth of a humpback the
15. 0:29ten explores his story
16. 0:31looks at previous whale encounters and
17. 0:33explains why it's no surprise the animal
18. 0:35spat him out
19. 0:37i was lobster diving and a humpback
20. 0:39whale tried to eat me
21. 0:40dot i was in his closed mouth for about
22. 0:4330 to 40
23. 0:44seconds before he rose to the surface
24. 0:46and spit me out.i
25. 0:47am very bruised up but have no broken
26. 0:49bones
27. 0:50packard wrote thankful for the help he
28. 0:53received from rescuers in provincetown
29. 0:55and seeking to clarify what had happened
30. 0:57to
31. 0:58him as it generated headlines worldwide
32. 1:01his sister cynthia packard had told the
33. 1:03cape cod times that packard was taken to
34. 1:06cape cod hospital with at least one
35. 1:08broken leg after the encounter friday
36. 1:10morning.what a way to become a celebrity
37. 1:13huh his mother said as he gingerly sat
38. 1:16down to speak with reporters
39. 1:18friday afternoon packard was in about 45
40. 1:21feet of water when i just felt this
41. 1:23truck hit me
42. 1:24and everything just went dark he said
43. 1:27at first he thought he'd been eaten by a
44. 1:29white shark the feared sharks have
45. 1:31become fixtures off the coast of cape
46. 1:33cod in the summer
47. 1:35then he realized it didn't have teeth i
48. 1:37said
49. 1:38oh my god i'm in the mouth of a whale
50. 1:41he was faced with an immediate struggle
51. 1:43in the hard
52. 1:44shaking mouth of the whale as his
53. 1:46breathing regulator came out of his
54. 1:48mouth
55. 1:48and he had to find it then as the
56. 1:51seconds ticked by
57. 1:52packard thought this is how you're going
58. 1:55to die
59. 1:56in the mouth of a whale he didn't know
60. 1:58if he would be swallowed or suffocate
61. 2:00he said and he thought about his 12 and
62. 2:0316 year old sons
63. 2:05wife mother and family i just was
64. 2:08struggling but i knew this
65. 2:09was this massive creature there was no
66. 2:12way i was going to bust myself
67. 2:14out of there packard recalled then
68. 2:17suddenly packard saw light fell the
69. 2:19whale shaking its head and was thrown
70. 2:21out of the water
71. 2:22i was just laying on the surface
72. 2:24floating and saw his tail and he went
73. 2:26back down
74. 2:27and i was like oh my god i got out of
75. 2:30that
76. 2:31i survived