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

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Talanes wrote: post #98
soheil wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You call diving in the ocean and swimming near whales "basically anything"? Diving itself is pretty high risk and the fatality rate isn't as low as you might think. You comparing essential daily activity to recreational diving in whale infested waters as equals is a quite mind boggling.

Given how many "An X Year Old Person Died in This Intersection This Year" signs I pass just going about my day, I don't think the fatality rate of essential daily activity is as low as you might think.

You're confusing essential with recreational activity.

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ballarak wrote: post #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…

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

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Post by soheil »

DonHopkins wrote: post #117
soheil wrote: post #85

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June apparently is the whale watching season in Cape Cod [0]. At least I hope from now on after this "freak accident" people pay a bit more attention and don't confuse things that can swallow them whole with harmless little pets they can cuddle and respect nature and the wild life for what they are. A whale in San Diego Seaworld injures several trainers [1]. A whale kills its trainer [2]. [0] https://candleberryinn.c…

I take personal offense. That's freak blaming!

Are you saying you'd get pleasure from being inside the mouth of a whale?

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Post by 6gvONxR4sf7o »

elliekelly wrote: post #130
enjrolas wrote: post #41

Another cameraman got gobbled by a Bryde's whale while he was filming a bait ball off the coast of South Africa a couple years ago. His wife took photos of him while he was half in the whale. Fortunately, the whale spat him out a few seconds later. As soon as he got out of the whale, he swam up to his wife to ask, "did you get it?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChcEb6mlEUo (worth the watch)

> As soon as he got out of the whale, he swam up to his wife to ask, "did you get it?" What has social media done to our brains that this is often the first thing people think to say after a near-death experience?

Is it a near death experience? It seems to me to be just a wild thing to happen. Maybe he didn’t perceive serious danger?

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Post by telesilla »

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #108
aeortiz wrote: post #67

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Giraffes are dangerous right? I wouldn't want to be near one (or a Hippo, or an Ostrich, etc...)

Giraffes: not really dangerous. They graze on the tops of trees. I don't know much about it, which leads me to think that "giraffe danger" isn't a thing that gets talked about because it's not much of a thing. Ostrich: They're not bright - the bird's eyeball is bigger than its brain. Last ostriches that I saw were a whole herd that came up to the fence with open mouths in anticipation of snacks, which was kinda cute.…

Ostriches get very territorial, can kick and will chase you. Not recommended to enter an area keeping ostriches.

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

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Post by 6gvONxR4sf7o »

soheil wrote: post #75

So a brother and sister claim he got swallowed by a whale and spit out seconds later and we just obviously believe them? Can someone shed more light on what evidence there is or any eyewitnesses attesting that this actually happened and that it isn't a prank by a couple of siblings reliving father Geppetto?

It seems pretty unlikely to me, given that he said he’s lost multiple friends to great white sharks while he lived on the west coast. There are maybe 2-3 shark attack deaths per decade on the west coast, spread across a huge area. I have a hard time believing he was friends with multiple of them, and was in the described plane crash, and was gobbled by a whale.

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Post by 6gvONxR4sf7o »

ballarak wrote: post #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…

He also says he lost some friends to great white sharks on the west coast, which strains credulity, given that there are 2-3 shark attack deaths per decade across the entire west coast.

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Post by DonHopkins »

soheil wrote: post #153
DonHopkins wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I take personal offense. That's freak blaming!

Are you saying you'd get pleasure from being inside the mouth of a whale?

Just that Edward Bouverie Pusey was a Jonah-Denier Shamer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah#Scientific_speculation

>In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, naturalists, interpreting the Jonah story as a historical account, became obsessed with trying to identify the exact species of the fish that swallowed Jonah. In the mid-nineteenth century, Edward Bouverie Pusey, professor of Hebrew at Oxford University, claimed that the Book of Jonah must have been authored by Jonah himself and argued that the fish story must be historically true, or else it would not have been included in the Bible. Pusey attempted to scientifically catalogue the fish, hoping to "shame those who speak of the miracle of Jonah's preservation in the fish as a thing less credible than any of God's other miraculous doings".

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

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Post by ashtonkem »

aeortiz wrote: post #67
ashtonkem wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Swimming near whales isn’t unsafe at all. They’re not particularly aggressive, a lone human is too small to worry about, and we operate on completely different sections of the food chain. This was more akin to getting stepped on by a giraffe that didn’t see you there. Total accident.

Giraffes are dangerous right? I wouldn't want to be near one (or a Hippo, or an Ostrich, etc...)

Yeah, I just couldn’t come up with something safer than that while also being big.

Elephants are mostly safe, except the male ones occasionally snap and hunt humans. So…

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