The Sea of Jonah - A Whale's Life Saver

A german exegesist supposes that jonah must have taken refuge in the floating body of a dead whale, even as the french soldiers in the russian campaign turn their dead horse s into tents and crawled into them. But he had still another reason for his want of faith. It was this, if i remember right, jonah was swallowed by the whale in the mediterranean sea, and after three days, he was vomited up somewhere within three days journey of a city on the tigris. How is that? There was no other way for the whale to land the prophet within that short distance. Such a supposition would involve the complete circumnav