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12-06-2021, 08:15
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Boat: Bruce Bingham Christina 49
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A Whale of a tale
This person claims they were engulfed by a whale and lived to tell about it. Love the end of the story, where it seems the whale knew the error in their ways!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/man-s...b08ecb9af9abff
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12-06-2021, 08:24
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
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Re: A Whale of a tale
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Originally Posted by Bill O
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Well they are filter feeders so any large objects that won't pass through are spat out..
Orca however are not.. lucky for him its was a humpback..
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12-06-2021, 08:24
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Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Narragansett Bay
Boat: Pearson 33-2
Posts: 36
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Re: A Whale of a tale
Crazy eh! It's all over the local news! Poor guy looked like he'd been barfed up!
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12-06-2021, 08:27
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Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: LI Sound
Boat: Sabre 34
Posts: 946
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Re: A Whale of a tale
Hope the diving companies don’t start advertising “inside whale” experience! 😉
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12-06-2021, 09:10
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Re: A Whale of a tale
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Originally Posted by Knotical
Hope the diving companies don’t start advertising “inside whale” experience! 😉
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Pretty sure there'd be a Lot of takers..
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"It is better to die standing proud, than to live a lifetime on ones knees.."
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12-06-2021, 09:17
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CLOD
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: being planted in Jacksonville Fl
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Re: A Whale of a tale
the best bar story ever ................................ as long as they have pictures!
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12-06-2021, 09:55
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Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: LI Sound
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Re: A Whale of a tale
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Originally Posted by sailorboy1
the best bar story ever ................................ as long as they have pictures!
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That’s what I was thinking too - I have dived twice and had my GoPro on both times, hope this guy had one on him and we get to see the footage in the future.
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13-06-2021, 13:14
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Madeira Park, BC
Boat: Custom steel, 41' LOD
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Re: A Whale of a tale
Apparently this guy was hunting lobster - so he would have been right on the bottom. Humpbacks are bottom-feeding filter feeders so it's quite possible for him to have been scooped up. And filter-feeding (balleen) whales can't swallow anything big - so yes, he would have been spat out. And how else to explain a dislocated knee (VERY painful!).
Very plausible. I believe it happened as he described it.
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13-06-2021, 14:13
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: West Sussex, United Kingdom
Boat: Tradewind 33, 33 foot, Parker 27 , 26 foot
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Re: A Whale of a tale
Was his name Jonah by any chance....?
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13-06-2021, 14:16
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2015
Boat: Bruce Bingham Christina 49
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Re: A Whale of a tale
no, he didn't stay inside for the stipulated 3 days.
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13-06-2021, 15:01
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CLOD
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: being planted in Jacksonville Fl
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Re: A Whale of a tale
Quote:
Originally Posted by Martkimwat
Was his name Jonah by any chance....?
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from now on everyone calls him Pinocchio
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14-06-2021, 08:08
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: New York, New York
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Re: A Whale of a tale
While I have no way of knowing for sure whether or not this actually happened, it does seem possible. There are many times where a person was accused of lying and later it came out that they were indeed telling the truth.
Perhaps one of the more famous cases was the lady in Australia who lost her baby to the dingoes. The authorities didn't believe her and only later did they find physical proof of her claim.
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14-06-2021, 08:23
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: Poughkeepsie, NY
Boat: Catalina Morgan 381
Posts: 57
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Re: A Whale of a tale
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Originally Posted by ArmyDaveNY
While I have no way of knowing for sure whether or not this actually happened, it does seem possible.
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It definitely happened. It's been all over the new out here on Cape Cod. I've even eaten lobsters caught by this man!
https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/n...od/7653838002/
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14-06-2021, 08:45
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#14
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: New York, New York
Boat: Dufour Safari 27'
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Re: A Whale of a tale
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Originally Posted by ksuderman
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That is quite the experience. I am glad to see that he is, for the most part, all right.
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