'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale

Licensed commercial lobster divers literally pluck lobsters off the sandy bottom, and as Packard, 56, dove down Friday morning, he saw schools of sand lances and stripers swimming by. In something truly biblical, Packard was swallowed whole by a humpback whale. "All of a sudden, I felt this huge shove and the next thing I knew it was completely black," Packard recalled Friday afternoon following his release from Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. What happened when a whale swallowed me?"I was completely inside; it was completely black," Packard said. Packard said Mayo saw the whale burst to the surface, and that he initially thought it was a great white shark. How was a man swallowed by a whale?Charles "Stormy" Mayo, a senior scientist and whale expert at the Center for Coastal Studies, agreed it was likely an accidental encounter. Cape Cod fishing:Cape Cod lobstermen get free gear to protect endangered right whales.