A whale swallows a lobster fisherman on Friday in Massachusetts, USA and then proceeded to spit him out alive, the man was able to recount his adventure.
Whale swallows fisherman off Massachusetts and spits him out alive
A humpback whale swallowed a lobster fisherman off Massachusetts, USA, on Friday and then proceeded to spit him out alive, the man was able to recount his adventure.
“I was diving for lobsters when a humpback whale tried to eat me. I was 30 to 40 seconds in its closed mouth before it spit me out.”
“I took bumps, but no broken bones. I thank Provincetown Rescue Swimming for their care and help.”
Josiah Mayo accompanied him on this fishing trip and recounted the COD Times moments when he saw his partner being ejected from the whale in the Atlantic and called the lifeguard.
And Mayo happens to be the son of one of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies‘ whale researchers and experts, Jooke Robbins, director of that institution’s humpback whale studies.
“I know the people involved, so I have reason to believe what they say is true,” Robbins said.
“I’ve never heard of a similar ‘accident,’ but “it’s possible that the guy was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” he said.
When these whales forage for food, they ‘dart in with their mouths open, swallow fish and water very quickly and then reject the water through their baleen,’ which acts ‘like a filter,’ he explained.
“‘Their mouth is quite big’, but ‘their throat is quite narrow, there’s no chance they could swallow something as big’ as a man, he added.
Once it “swallowed” the man, it is possible that “it was quite surprised and opened its mouth to let go.”
