Packard crewman Josiah Mayo is Stormy Mayo’s son.Ĭlimate Change: A whale of a reminder: Nantucket sculpture raises awareness of ocean littering dangers In those places I’m not aware of a single incident of people having problems with them,” Mayo said. “People direct dive on them (humpbacks) in the tropics, not here.
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It requires a federal permit for professional photographers and researchers to get close to whales underwater, but there are areas of the world where it is generally allowed. "So many things would have had to happen to end up in the path of a feeding whale." How was a man swallowed by a whale?Ĭharles “Stormy” Mayo, a senior scientist and whale expert at the Center for Coastal Studies, agreed it was likely an accidental encounter. "It is not something I have heard happening before," Robbins said of the incident Friday. He sees them all the time out there,” said Cynthia Packard. A Provincetown Fire Department ambulance took him to Cape Cod Hospital. Mayo picked him up, called by radio to shore and sped back to the Provincetown pier. Then the whale flung her brother back into the sea. “There was all this action at the top of the water,” Packard said Mayo told her. Packard said Mayo saw the whale burst to the surface, and that he initially thought it was a great white shark. Packard’s sister, Cynthia Packard, spoke with crewman Josiah Mayo, who relayed some of the details to her.
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Watch humpback whales get rescued: Whale rescuers free humpback from fishing gear near Stellwagen Bank, MAįirst Light Boatworks: Adventurer Guirec Soudée set to cross Atlantic from Chatham to home in France “I saw light, and he started throwing his head side to side, and the next thing I knew I was outside (in the water),” said Packard, who lives in Wellfleet. He estimated he was in the whale for 30 to 40 seconds before the whale finally surfaced.
Outfitted with scuba gear, he struggled and the whale began shaking its head so that Packard could tell he didn’t like it. I’m done, I’m dead.’ All I could think of was my boys - they’re 12 and 15 years old.” A man was swallowed by a whale: How do we know it is true? “I thought to myself, ‘there’s no way I’m getting out of here. "Even though he's not safe, he feels complete there," she says.Ĭatch the incredible story on 60 Minutes this Sunday, after new Beauty and the Geek on Channel 9.“I was completely inside it was completely black,” Packard said. This is what makes me happy."įor his mother Anne, who remains forever in owe of her son's death-defying tendencies, she's had to learn to live with his love of the ocean and all the dangers it may bring. "They talk about workaholics and you know, I'm official fishaholic," Packard says. However, nothing has deterred him from getting back in the water, telling 60 Minutes he is happiest when in the ocean. "The reinforcement that I got from the community really just made me not worry about what anybody else has to say," he says. He said that despite some people doubting his amazing story, he remains supported by the locals of Cape Cod. Michael Packard's life was turned into fantasy when he was swallowed by a humpback whale. The story of survival has captured the imagination of the world and catapulted this humble man of the sea into the international spotlight. "I tried and I tried and then I guess I was like, there's no way I'm going to get out of here unless he lets me get out," Packard told Stefanovic. Incredibly, the fisherman spent nearly a minute in the mouth of the mighty beast before being spat out, telling 60 Minutes he knew his survival depended entirely on the whale. "He's had so many near-death experiences," she says. Michael had almost drowned at 12 years old and then as an adult he survived a plane crash in Costa Rica. (Nine)īut his mother Anne, who is an acclaimed artist, says her son's unexpected journey into a humpback whale's mouth wasn't his first brush with death. "It took me about five seconds to realise I was in that whale's mouth" he says. I was convinced that this was it," he says.
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