On: 'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed...

[HenryKissinger]

The ribs and terrors in the whale

Arched over me a dismal gloom,

While all God’s sun-lit waves rolled by,

And lift me deepening down to doom.

‘I saw the opening maw of hell,

With endless pains and sorrows there;

Which none but they that feel can tell—

Oh, I was plunging to despair.

— H. Melville

[tartuffe78 → HenryKissinger]

We are two mariners, our ships' sole survivors

In this belly of a whale

Its ribs our ceiling beams, its guts our carpeting

I guess we have some time to kill

- The Mariner’s Revenge Song, The Decemberists

[cratermoon → tartuffe78]

The water about me rose to my neck,

for the deep was closing over me;

seaweed twined about my head

at the roots of the mountains;

I was sinking into a world

whose bars would hold me fast for ever.

[ashton314 → HenryKissinger]

Oh man, I forgot I sang Jonah’s Song with the BYU Men’s Chorus until you posted those lines. I couldn’t find a recording of us singing it, but here is an excellent recording of another choir singing it:

https://youtu.be/3FmjPpTqk3s

[analog31 → HenryKissinger]

I'm betting the guy's going to get a nickname from this episode. ;-)

[Digory → analog31]

Joe, nah.