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'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale

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Re: 'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale

#11
post #5

I guess he had a whale of a time!

The night swallowed the day.

I swallowed the novel in one night.

She swallowed me whole; I was smitten.

The child was swallowed by the huge overcoat.

That’s how words work in our fun and rollicking language.

Re: 'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale

#12
"Ten years ago, while traveling in Costa Rica, he was a passenger in a small plane that crashed in the jungle, killing the pilot, co-pilot and a passenger. Packard sustained multiple serious injuries to his abdomen and upper body. The rescuers that found the remaining five passengers after two nights in the jungle said they wouldn’t have survived another night."

This guy's luck is clearly maxed out. What a crazy pair of stories.

Re: 'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale

#13
post #5

I guess he had a whale of a time!

I'd like to see you make that distinction when a 50 foot 30 ton beast is coming right at you How sure will you be then? "Ah its an accident, this animal's doesn't even eat humans and its throat is too sm---"

What’s the purpose of your response? It clearly wasn’t meant as a claim that one can decide on matters of internal whale anatomy in a split second.

Re: 'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale

#14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd like to see you make that distinction when a 50 foot 30 ton beast is coming right at you How sure will you be then? "Ah its an accident, this animal's doesn't even eat humans and its throat is too sm---"

What’s the purpose of your response? It clearly wasn’t meant as a claim that one can decide on matters of internal whale anatomy in a split second.

Introspection about a useless pedantic response that is also mentioned in the article, while the diver still thought he was never getting out

Re: 'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale

#15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s the purpose of your response? It clearly wasn’t meant as a claim that one can decide on matters of internal whale anatomy in a split second.

Introspection about a useless pedantic response that is also mentioned in the article, while the diver still thought he was never getting out

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Re: 'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale

#19
post #16

I like to hope that cetaceans are sentient. Given that, I can imagine the poor whale being completely grossed out by whatever it just got in its mouth and tried to spit it out as fast as possible. I've definitely had that experience before.

Mouth full of scuba gear would be unpleasant.

Re: 'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale

#20

The ribs and terrors in the whale Arched over me a dismal gloom, While all God’s sun-lit waves rolled by, And lift me deepening down to doom. ‘I saw the opening maw of hell, With endless pains and sorrows there; Which none but they that feel can tell— Oh, I was plunging to despair. — H. Melville

I'm betting the guy's going to get a nickname from this episode. ;-)
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