Michael Packard, 56, was on his second dive of the day looking for lobsters in Cape Code, a peninsula in the US state of Massachusetts, on the southeast coast. His vessel “Ja’n J” was sitting just off popular Herring Cove Beach – alongside a fleet of other boats fishing for striped bass. The method behind commercial lobster diving is collecting lobsters from the sandy bottom. And, 45ft (14 metres) deep, is where the father-of-two had his terrifying encounter with the humpback whale.
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