The whale is the largest mammal in the world, with a body of hundreds of tons and its huge mouth, if it attacks people, then there will be no place to die!
But last Friday, a diver engaged in lobster diving was lucky enough to escape from the whale's mouth, and of course the lucky diver did it more than once, twenty years ago, he survived a small plane crash on costa Rica's Pacific coast!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > Michael Packard's thrilling journey</h1>
In November 2001, Michael Packard, a 38-year-old entrepreneur working in recreational fishing in Costa Rica, flew from Sansa Airlines from San Jose to the port of Jiménez, and as he was about to reach his destination, the plane failed mechanically and crashed into the jungle off the coast of Costa Rica.
Among them, pilot Ricardo Salazar, co-pilot Carlos Lacayo and passenger Adolfo Predo, who was sitting next to him, were killed, while he and 4 other passengers persisted in the jungle for more than 2 days and were finally rescued, although there were multiple injuries in the abdomen and upper body, but they always recovered a life!
Michael Packard would never have dreamed that 20 years later he would escape the second time in another way, and on June 11, 2021, he was doing a routine dive on the coast of Cape Cod, and was about to float to the surface of the sea when he was suddenly hit by a heavy blow, it was pitch black in front of his eyes, there seemed to be a lot of fish around, Michael Packard realized that he might be swallowed by whales!
In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through his mind, even the methods he had seen on social media to escape from the belly of the whale, but he didn't do anything, because the darkness, the crowding, and the pain from his injured leg made him feel as if he was about to suffocate, and maybe after a minute, maybe a longer time later, Michael Packard suddenly lit up and returned to the sea!
Crew Josiah Mayo witnessed several humpback whales suddenly appearing from the nearby sea, one of which spat out a large clump of seawater, it seems that there was his boss Michael Packard, quickly rescued it, and immediately called for help from the Provincetown Fire Department, reported that someone had a serious leg injury after interacting with the whale, and after being diagnosed by the doctor after the doctor was diagnosed, Michael Packard was only soft tissue damage and bruises, not in the way, just rest.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="10" > swallowed by a humpback whale, is there a chance to escape? </h1>
Josiah Mayo, a crew member of Michael Packard, said the humpback whale that spat out the boss was about 10 meters long, and experts said the whale weighed about 40 tons.
Humpback whales, also known as large-winged whales or humpback whales, are marine mammals of the suborder baleen whale, the most obvious feature of humpback whales is that the pectoral fin is particularly long, which can reach 1/3 of the body, and adult humpback whales are about 12-16 meters long, generally weighing 25-40 tons, and occasionally more than 60 tons of humpback whales.
The humpback whale's pectoral fin and its pleasant call make humpback whales a target for whale watchers, and the humpback whale song is also the call of the humpback whale, and some people dive specifically to enjoy this long sound.
Humpback whales are baleen whales, that is, filter-feeding cetaceans, and there are two types of whales, one is the baleen whale like humpback whales, such as blue whales, fin whales, Cypriot whales and Brucello whales, and the other is toothed whales, such as sperm whales, killer whales, narwhals and dolphins.
The difference is also very simple, the baleen whale has a circle of whiskers like a plate brush inside the mouth, when hunting, it will even inhale small fish, shrimp and seawater, just like the following figure, a brain will inhale seawater and fish (the GIF should be whale sharks, but the hunting method is similar)
The picture below shows the "plate brush" in the mouth of the baleen whale, the yellow hair is very dense, even plankton can be intercepted in the mouth, so the baleen whale's food is small fish or simply krill.
Another feature is that the throat of the baleen whale is not large, even if it is like a 180-ton blue whale, the throat is only the size of a basketball, and it can't swallow a person at all, so Michael Packard is taking the luck and encountering the baleen whale, if the tooth whale is ready to attack this old man, it is estimated that his family will not be able to find a place to cry!
For example, the sperm whale that can "produce" ambergris has very sharp teeth, and its favorite food is the giant squid under thousands of meters of water depth, and the so-called "ambergris" is also to avoid the squid's inner bone and sharp claws from hurting its gastrointestinal tract and being wrapped in layers of secretions, and finally discharged from the body through complex seawater chemistry to form ambergris.
And killer whales can hunt great white sharks, humpback whales and even blue whales, in 2017, on the beach of The famous shark viewing spot in the Cape Province of South Africa, there were 5 corpses of great white sharks, these poor sharks had a small wound in their abdomen, but the liver has been strangely lost, after the identification of marine animal experts, this is the wound caused by killer whales, they killed sharks, but only ate the liver!
If Michael Packard had encountered killer whales, if they only wanted to eat liver, it is estimated that this brother could still keep a "whole corpse", but killer whales only have records of attacking people in captive aquariums, and there has never been a similar record in the natural environment.
However, doctors are skeptical about what happened to Michael Paka, who, according to Michael Paka, was swallowed when he first left the seabed, about 45 feet (14 meters) from the surface of the water, and was taken to the surface by the whale for a short time without decompression injuries.
If swallowed by baleen whales, is it really not life-threatening?
Judging from michael Packard's encounter, there is indeed no problem, but this has a premise, the baleen whale mouth is closed when the person is completely in the mouth, otherwise the baleen whale in order to force the water out of the upper and lower jaws, may damage the diving equipment, too long may cause people to fall unconscious until drowning, these are possible!
In February 2019, South African marine conservationist Rainer Schimpf was caught in the mouth of a Bruce whale while snorkeling and photographing sardines off the coast of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. This old man was very lucky, he was only caught in the mouth of the Bruce whale and was released, only half a person entered the mouth of the whale, but did not suffer any harm, and continued to work calmly after being spit out.
The body structure of the blue whale
But if you're attacked by a toothed whale, don't look at articles about how to escape from the belly of a whale, because the teeth of a toothed whale won't get you into the belly of the whale intact, so you can only pray that this kind of thing doesn't happen!