Whales can swim at a depth of 100 m (3,290 ft), whereas the human body can only swim at a depth of 20 m (65 ft) without assistance. Because surviving all depends on where you get spit out. So if you were able to survive long enough, you could be spit up with it. Luckily for you, sperm whales need to vomit every several hours. It worked for our friend Rainer Schimpf, so why couldn’t it work for you? He was lucky enough to be spit out before he was swallowed, but in your case it’s going to be a little more difficult. You would also need a breathing tube and an oxygen reservoir because there wouldn’t be any breathable air. There is some evidence that it could withstand the harsh environment in the stomach. One type of suit that might do the trick is called a neoprene wetsuit. You would want a suit that’s resistant to hydrochloric acid, so that you could survive in the whale’s stomachs. Some people might think you’re a little paranoid when you show up to swim with the whales in your elaborate wetsuit, but it could very well save your life. You could try to grab on to the walls of the esophagus, but that would be very difficult as it is covered in mucus. It will be extremely dark, but if you can find something to hold onto, you won’t get burned and digested in any of the whale’s four stomachs. Try to feel around in the mouth before you get swallowed. In a situation like this, you have to use your instincts. Yes, we realize that it’s easier said than done, but there is no time for fear. Even if you were curled up into a ball, you’d still be lucky to make it through the mouth without losing an arm or leg, but at least you’d have a chance. Sperm whales have 18-26 teeth on each side of their jaws, and each tooth weighs up to 1 kg (2.2 lbs). This will minimize your body’s surface area, and decrease the chance you’ll get chomped by the whale’s teeth. You need to curl up into the tightest ball you can. If you thought that with two near-death experiences under his belt Packard would be taking it easy and indulging in some nice, safe, leisurely activities from now on, then you thought wrong, as the man with nine lives explained, “I’m still the same old guy doing my same old shit.Bring your arms and legs into your body as tightly as you can, and lower your chin to your chest. He must have been a cat in a previous life because two of his nine lives have been used up. Not only has Packard survived being eaten by a whale, he was also involved in a plane crash that left him with a “punctured lung and four broken ribs, 180 stitches in my head cut Achilles,” he explained. “What haunts me more is my plane crash,” he added. However, believe it or not, this isn’t the scariest thing to happen to Packard. ![]() If you didn’t have thalassophobia before well, you probably do now. “All of a sudden just got to the surface and he started shaking his head and getting all erratic and then boom! I fucking fly out of his mouth. They say the early bird catches the worm, but in this case, it’s the whale that catches the diver.īut as luck would have it, the whale, who’s consumption of Packard was purely accidental, decided it didn’t fancy a human for breakfast and proceeded to launch its accidental snack back out into the ocean. And I’m in there, and I’m trying to get out, and fucking freaking out.” And instantly I knew I was in a whale, not a shark and then my regulator fell out and I was like, ‘I better grab that fucking thing’. It was then that it dawned on him what had happened: “And I’m like ‘what the fuck’. And I was just moving through the water like wicked fast.” And water was just rushing, rushing around me, and black, and I could feel pressure on my whole body. Just like a freight train and then all of a sudden it went black. Talking to WCVB, Packard recounted his incredible ordeal: “ I just got slammed. ![]() He had completed two successful dives but his third one is where things went belly up. On 11 June 2021, Packard was out on a diving trip in the early hours of the morning looking for lobsters. Much like the scene from Pinocchio - the ever occurring retellings of ‘Jonah and the Whale’-Michael Packard from Wellfleet, Massachusetts was actually swallowed by a whale and somehow lived to tell the tale.
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