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MuLiShA · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 5:02 pm Post subject:

Look at the 2nd picture with the fin out of water, notice how its pointed and not round like a dolphin?
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Stevo · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 6:06 pm Post subject:

Nice picture.

Seems that we have a few shark and dolphin experts here....
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MuLiShA · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 6:31 pm Post subject:

Twisted29 · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 6:37 pm Post subject:

It has to be a dolphin because Snopes says so.

You can't question that sort of authority!
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DarkTemplar316 · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 8:34 pm Post subject:

maybe its a whale..... j/k

[HALO]MasterChief · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 9:41 pm Post subject:

maybe it was me swiming with a fin on my back....
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MuLiShA · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 10:36 pm Post subject:

When you see a shark, take your legs out of the water and catch a wave in. Oh, and don't go swimming with seals, you look like a huge, slow seal.
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MuLiShA · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 10:37 am Post subject:

DukeNukem · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 11:18 am Post subject:

Photography tip - This picture was likely taken with a very long (higher power/telephoto) lens. Probably from a tripod on the beach. The result is that the dolphin looks a bit larger than it really is relative to the man in the fore. (It is a perspective thing - just the opposite of a "fish-eye" lens - which makes close objects look very big compared to distant objects)

I did some quick calculations from the scale of the man in the picture and the dolpin. This dolphin would be somewhere around 10-13 ft long. Indeed a large dolphin, but not outside of the range of bottlenose dolphins.
{see: Bottlenose Dolphin - click on the link}

BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN

Compare the picture of the dolphin fin to the shark fin:

BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN FIN

GREAT WHITE FIN

In this particular case it is hard to question what Snopes has said since they point you to the original photographer. It is easy enough to verify with the photographer that the second picture is indeed of the same animal.
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sharkbyte · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 11:26 am Post subject:

I was kinda hoping it was a shark. Maybe get a new sig out of it.

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kamikaze · Registered User Joined: 10 Sep 2001 Posts: 138

hate to break it to ya guys, but it's definitely a dolphin. i've been around the gulf coast and gulf of mexico alot in my life and i've seen many sharks and many dolphins. i can't count how many times i've seen dolphins "body surfing" in the waves. they're very playful creatures. sharks on the other hand, don't tend to engage in that kind of activity. everytime i have seen a shark it has been in one of three different ways.
1) chasing the fish we catch up to the surface when we deep sea fish.
2) generally sulking around the gulf bottom around the 2nd sandbar
3) on my fishing hook

kason, i still hate your posts and i don't find it necessary that you spam every thread with incoherent babble and smileys. please stop using the internet. kthx.
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Stevo · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 8:59 pm Post subject:

kamikaze · Registered User Joined: 10 Sep 2001 Posts: 138

::sigh:: stevo, what relevance did his post have other than to draw attention to himself? if you haven't noticed, i don't post on many threads, and when i do, it's usually something significant. it just seems that on every thread i DO post on, kason has already polluted it by either going off topic (ie: woodworking thread) or doing things to draw attention to himself (see this thread). my whole problem with him is it seems that he posts EVERYTHING he thinks and i'm tired of wading through his thoughts to get to the meat'n'potatoes of a thread. there are some others on here that do the same, but kason is a perfect example.

oh, and stevo, you're fighting a losing battle here. i also think you're stupid and theville thong doesn't look good on you.
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