SWALLOWED By A Whale | Michael Packard 1 In A Billion — Transcript

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3. 0:11lobsters often considered one of the
4. 0:13most electable shellfish are also known
5. 0:15for their high price tag in the past
6. 0:18they were primarily consumed by
7. 0:20commoners due to their abundance and
8. 0:22subpar quality interestingly when their
9. 0:25population was more abundant they
10. 0:27frequently washed a Shore making them
11. 0:29easily accessible able for consumption
12. 0:31however their slow growth rates and
13. 0:34excessive fishing have caused their
14. 0:35numbers to dwindle
15. 0:37significantly catching them in large
16. 0:39quantities has become more challenging
17. 0:41and storing them safely for consumption
18. 0:43according to Modern food standards has
19. 0:45also posed difficulties while there are
20. 0:48modern methods such as trolling with
21. 0:50Nets or using Lobster pots for Mass
22. 0:52farming some lobsters are still caught
23. 0:55using traditional techniques slipper
24. 0:58lobsters for instance tend to take
25. 1:00refuge in caves and reefs making them a
26. 1:02target for scuba divers who used hand
27. 1:04Nets to catch them these divers
28. 1:06literally Traverse the ocean floor
29. 1:08locating and capturing lobsters manually
30. 1:11on June 11th 2021 a 56-year-old Lobster
31. 1:15diver named Michael Packard was fishing
32. 1:17near Provincetown Massachusetts his
33. 1:20initial dive for the day proved
34. 1:22unfruitful yielding minable results but
35. 1:25undeterred he decided to dive once more
36. 1:28at approximately 8:00 a.m. this
37. 1:29ascending to a depth of around 15 M
38. 1:33however just before reaching the ocean
39. 1:35floor he experienced an immense force
40. 1:37from behind akin to being struck by a
41. 1:39truck plunging him into darkness in that
42. 1:43Split Second Michael believed he had
43. 1:45been attacked by a great white Shar as
44. 1:47nothing else could possibly possess such
45. 1:50magnitude he then reached out exploring
46. 1:53his surroundings and discovered that he
47. 1:55was surrounded by Soft muscular tissue
48. 1:58it was at that moment that realized that
49. 2:00he was inside the mouth of a whale this
50. 2:03whale had engulfed him from behind and
51. 2:05was attempting to swallow him whole
52. 2:08fortunately he still had his scuba gear
53. 2:10on so he anxiously waited unsure if he
54. 2:14would be crushed or if the whale would
55. 2:16recognize he was not food after about 30
56. 2:19or 40 seconds he felt the whale shaking
57. 2:22from side to side and then he began to
58. 2:24see light bubbles surrounded him as the
59. 2:27whale surfaced and expelled him the last
60. 2:29thing he saw was the massive tail of the
61. 2:31whale disappearing beneath the water's
62. 2:34surface despite being shaken he was
63. 2:36grateful to be alive the boat and crew
64. 2:39that Michael was with witnessed the
65. 2:41entire incident according to the captain
66. 2:44Michael emerged from the water feet
67. 2:47first and landed on his back they
68. 2:49quickly pulled him aboard believing he
69. 2:51had broken his leg and rushed into the
70. 2:53hospital however it was determined that
71. 2:56he had only dislocated his knee aside
72. 2:59from that he had had some bruising on
73. 3:00his legs and he had no signs of any ear
74. 3:03embolism from resurfacing rapidly he was
75. 3:06discharged by the end of the day and
76. 3:08resumed diving the following week the
77. 3:10whale which had swallowed him was a
78. 3:11humpback whale which can reach lengths
79. 3:13of up to 50 ft and weigh 36 tons
80. 3:17humpback whales do not eat humans and
81. 3:20this behavior is extremely rare it's
82. 3:22believed that the whale mistook the
83. 3:24bubbles from his scuba gear for a sko of
84. 3:26fish and instinctively opened its
85. 3:28massive mouth to uses a net thankfully
86. 3:31once it realized he was not a fish it
87. 3:34expelled him quoting Michael he says I
88. 3:38realized oh my God I'm in a whale's
89. 3:40mouth and he's going to swallow me this
90. 3:41is it I'm going to die fortunately for
91. 3:45him his wife and his two boys that was
92. 3:47not the case
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