Comments on: Takeover Week: Surfing the Shark (Keir Clarke)

By: Ernie

Ernie — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:42:38 +0000

I agree. Unless the shark's dressed and shurfing on an identical yellow board, that's a ghost.

I can understand if someone were to look quickly they may think it's some sort of sea life. Though sharks don't find people yummy, they sure like to try us! But any time spent looking at the image would prove its just a flaw.

By: korg20000bc

korg20000bc — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:34:16 +0000

I agree with you. It does look like a surfer and not a shark. I had assumed that a "Ghost" needs to be an exact match not a completely different image.

Matthew

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:27:40 +0000

@ korg20000bc: If you click through to the main map, you'll see that Alex's rotated images do both appear in the original images.

And finally, the 'shark' is without question a guy on a surfboard. It is not a direct 'ghost' (i.e. the 'shark' doesn't appear elsewhere in the image at the same time), but I'm almost positive that it's the same surfer captured at a slightly different time.

By: korg20000bc

korg20000bc — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:39:50 +0000

Those images do not match up, nor are they the images in the original post.

Matt

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:38:58 +0000

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/2513/untitledif4.jpg

I don’t see how anyone can think this isn’t a ghost.

By: woowoowoo

woowoowoo — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:28:39 +0000

another ‘not a ghost’ – I have never seen a ghost image anything but offset – never rotated and as has been said, the details are wrong. On the other hand, I have seen sharks in situations like this and the surfers definitely would have no idea and probably faced very little danger… it’s just what sharks do.

By: korg20000bc

korg20000bc — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:48:22 +0000

I agree with Patrick. It is not "clearly" a ghost image. I cannot get the details to match. The dark splodge on the lighter area doesn't match the image of the surfer. It's the surfer's arm over the board but the "ghost" looks like a head shape. I don't know if it is a shark, it maybe- especially if you took the dark shape to be the shadow of a dorsal fin.

Matt

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:56:56 +0000

I disagree. That is clearly not the bottom surfer rotated. Is it a shark? I don’t know. I do know that it is NOT a ghost image of the surfer though. Details don’t match.

By: Louis

Louis — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:33:50 +0000

Even though this is a ghost image these things do happen.

Look here: http://www.paddlenround.com/img/shark-kayak.jpg

Cheers Louis

By: James

James — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:02:45 +0000

@WRA/Aaron: Link fixed, thanks.

@Michael: See here: http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/02/27/australia-day-flyover/