Lobster diver survives after being caught ‘in a whale’s mouth’

Packard, 56, says he was caught in the mouth of a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod before he was spat out.

A commercial lobster diver has survived after being caught in the mouth of a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod before he was spat out. Michael Packard, 56, said he was about 45 feet (14 metres) deep in the waters off Provincetown when “all of a sudden I felt this huge bump, and everything went dark”. He thought he had been attacked by a shark, common in area waters, but then realised he could not feel any teeth and he was not in any pain.