"Even though he's not safe, he feels complete there," she says.Ĭatch the incredible story on 60 Minutes this Sunday, after new Beauty and the Geek on Channel 9. This is what makes me happy."įor his mother Anne, who remains forever in owe of her son's death-defying tendencies, she's had to learn to live with his love of the ocean and all the dangers it may bring. "They talk about workaholics and you know, I'm official fishaholic," Packard says.
However, nothing has deterred him from getting back in the water, telling 60 Minutes he is happiest when in the ocean. "The reinforcement that I got from the community really just made me not worry about what anybody else has to say," he says. He said that despite some people doubting his amazing story, he remains supported by the locals of Cape Cod.
Michael Packard's life was turned into fantasy when he was swallowed by a humpback whale. The story of survival has captured the imagination of the world and catapulted this humble man of the sea into the international spotlight. "I tried and I tried and then I guess I was like, there's no way I'm going to get out of here unless he lets me get out," Packard told Stefanovic. Incredibly, the fisherman spent nearly a minute in the mouth of the mighty beast before being spat out, telling 60 Minutes he knew his survival depended entirely on the whale. "He's had so many near-death experiences," she says. Michael had almost drowned at 12 years old and then as an adult he survived a plane crash in Costa Rica.
(Nine)īut his mother Anne, who is an acclaimed artist, says her son's unexpected journey into a humpback whale's mouth wasn't his first brush with death. He goes ‘I can’t believe it, I was in the mouth of a whale, Joe’ After the incident Lobster diver Michael Packard, 56, of Wellfleet, gives the thumbs up Friday morning from Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, where he was taken after he was injured in an encounter with a humpback whale Provincetown. "It took me about five seconds to realise I was in that whale's mouth" he says. I was convinced that this was it," he says.
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