In the Mouth of the Whale

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.7 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Michael Packard makes a living fishing off the coast of Cape Cod. He catches mostly tuna and mackerel. He drags for clams. And for three months every summer, he dives for lobsters. "It's an extremely dangerous profession. I think about it a lot, but I try not to. I can't dwell on it,” he told us. “You know, this is what I love. It's a different world down there. It’s a whole different world." Last summer, he had an astonishing encounter with a whale. Two weeks later he was back in the water. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:25.0	This is a high-risk news last summer you may remember.
0:37.0	This is just an incredible story.
0:39.0	It was about a man named Michael Packard, a commercial lobsterman on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
0:45.0	What it is is a frightening and very heroic battle for survival.
0:50.0	Fisherman Michael Packard was diving for lobster 45 feet down in Cape Cod when his day took an unexpected turn.
0:58.0	It's really so unbelievable. I think a lot of people are going to be talking about this.
1:02.0	Packard says he never saw it coming, felt a bump, and everything turned dark.
1:07.0	On June 11, 2021, an emergency call was placed from a boat in Cape Cod Bay.
1:15.6	When you heard about the whale's story, did you think someone's pulling my leg, this must be
1:20.4	a joke?
1:21.4	Oh no.
1:23.4	Michael's mother, Anne Packard.
1:26.0	I had been out.
1:27.3	I don't know where I got and I came in and two of my girls were here.
1:31.3	It's all right, Ma. but Michael's in the hospital. He got in a whale's mouth.
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