On Friday, Michael Packard, a lobster diver from
Cape Cod, was almost swallowed by a humpback whale but was inexplicably spat
out and able to swim to safety; his story made headlines around the world.
And it appears that this isn’t the first time Packard had a lucky break.

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Packard was reportedly on board a flight from San José to
Puerto Jimenez that crashed in November 2001, killing three people. According
to a report in the Cape Cod Times in 2001, Packard, 57, survived the crash but
suffered “severe facial injuries and multiple broken long bones in his
arms and legs.”

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The lobsterman and four other passengers remained in the
Costa Rican jungle for two nights before being discovered by rescuers. The
survivors would not have survived another night at the site, according to a
doctor who treated them.

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Packard has made a second escape after finding himself
inside the jaws of a humpback whale two decades later. Packard said he thought
he was inside the mouth of a shark, but after feeling no sharp teeth, he
realised he was most likely inside the mouth of a whale, but that didn’t
make him feel any better.