Completely black.
We surf fans are treated, regularly, to such wonderful videos of impossibly deep barrel rides. Surfers becoming covered up, so profoundly, that it seems likely they will never see the light of day again. Surfers becoming one in the belly of a beast.
Oh, not a literal “beast” as the ocean is our friend etc., but a lobster diver out looking for nummies on warm a early summer day got swallowed whole by a whale and lived to tell the tale.
Michael Packard was just off his boat, Friday morning, heading down to Cape Code’s floor when a humpback whale gobbled him right up. “All of a sudden, I felt this huge shove and the next thing I knew it was completely black,” Packard told The Cape Cod Times Friday afternoon following his release from Cape Cod Hospital. “I could sense I was moving, and I could feel the whale squeezing with the muscles in his mouth.”
The 56-year-old father of two thought he may have been sucked down by a Great White, as he sees them regularly, but didn’t feel teeth or anything overtly nasty so surmised he must be inside a barrel.
“I was completely inside; it was completely black. I thought to myself, ‘there’s no way I’m getting out of here. I’m done, I’m dead.’ All I could think of was my boys — they’re 12 and 15 years old.”
Unlike Great Whites, though, whales have warm hearts, feelings, and Packard could tell his movement was making the mammal sad and so kept moving and moving until his new friend moved back to the surface and spit him out.
It is the first known incident of whale of whale swallowing man since the time of Jonah.
Packard suffered no broken bones and is excited to dive again soon.
A happy ending much like Nathan Florence in Nias.
Very cool.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Sums up just about every point made on The Grit.
There’s a Reddit posted by the son of the guy who got swallowed by the whale.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IA…
Can hold 5000 gallons +
Untrue. They can fit a human. They gulp their food. So it is possible.
https://youtu.be/ocRVFI4EggM
I am now wondering what the whale sang after regurgitating ?
I hope our fisherman was wearing a full body condom during the full body fellatio… ?
Those whales , god love them , get around ?
This is fucking stupid. Did he get any lobster or no?
I think the lobster fishing is an excuse ….like the guy who got his penis stuck in the vacuum cleaner ,who fell over , naked , while cleaning ? People do strange things ….
what? you never accidentally fell onto a corn cob at a bbq?
Corn Cob , let me think ….Not accidentally ? … and even when you eat them they somehow come out the other end looking shiny and new ….. well at least yellow and not like shit .
Whale to go, man!
Did you know One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is just a re-telling of Moby Dick?
It is. Think about it. Do the math.
And didn’t some chick kayakers get semi-swallowed by a whale a few months ago?
You know how that guy got out of the whale’s stomach?
He ran around and around until he was pooped out.
And Moby Dick is a retelling of Sir Gwain and Beowulf .
The hero with a thousand faces.
Moby Dick kind of tanked when it came out.
It was published in 1851 when the Gold Rush was on.
People were looking west and whaling was old book.
Melville didn’t make the money he thought he would make, and he ended up working in a customs house.
The book wasn’t popular until Melville was long gone.
That’s just God being mean.
I mean, imagine if all of Chas Smith’s books became popular only after he drowned in the Media Heat at Pipe Masters?
That, too, would be God being mean, although that posthumous popularity is unlikely.
Two nights ago the grumpy owner of Malibu Kitchen was celebrating his birthday at Nobu. They did some birthday thing for him and some dude at another table got mad and jealous and started barking at his wife and he stripped down to his G-string and started dancing around Nobu.
True story.
And now this:
Moby Dick is usually regarded as “the greatest American novel ever written”
(Rudd) by many critics and important authors such as D.H Lawrence, who said that it
was “the greatest book of the sea ever written”(168). No, doubt Herman Melville´s sixth
novel is an epic that deals with several classic epic themes such as knowledge, fate,
revenge and the self. However, what makes it a more singular novel is that it also
displays scientific and natural knowledge. Besides, personal experience in the whaling
world is provided by Ishmael´s voice, a novice whaler who “not simply watches but
deciphers what he sees” (Arvin 1). The purpose of this paper is to prove that Herman
Melville´s Moby Dick is an epic that joins together two traditions of epics and mingles
them in order to build a more complex epic. In Melville´s epic a hero takes a circular
voyage and comes back to civilization renewed and reborn with a greater knowledge,
“beginning with Odysseus, Beowulf and Sir Gawain- not to mention Spiderman or
Batman- the epic culminates around the hero’s journey of self discovery and spiritual
maturation” (webpages.uidaho.edu, 2014). This triumphant hero shares his knowledge
making a “retelling of that story” on his return (Sten and Sten 82) acting somehow like a
preacher allowing us to begin our own trip of self-discovery. In order to carry out the
analysis following Thomas Drake´s study of classical epic will serve as te basis for the
analysis of Moby Dick. Campbell´s A Hero with a Thousand Faces will stand as the
guideline to approach the stages of the hero´s journey: departure, initiation and return.
I fear nothing! Except this, and a few other dark scenarios.
Whale, how about that!
Whaleoilbeefhooked.
…so did he give him the tree fiddy?
That’s his cousin, Lochness Monsta.
Good thing Moby wasnt a dick about it!
Im here every tuesday morning, help yourself to the all you can eat buffet.
Jonah what I’m saying homey?