Swallowed Into Mercy
In 1985, a commercial diver named Michael Packard was working off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, when a humpback whale accidentally scooped him into its...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Jonah 1:17.
In 1985, a commercial diver named Michael Packard was working off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, when a humpback whale accidentally scooped him into its mouth. For thirty terrifying seconds, Packard tumbled in warm, crushing darkness, convinced he was going to die. Then the whale surfaced and spat him out, battered but breathing, into the Atlantic light. Packard's accident lasted half a minute.…
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