Another Whale! Or is it a Rock?
I’m going with Whale. No wait, rock! What do you think?
See our previous whale posts for more dubious whale sightings!
Thanks: Joshk.
I’m going with Whale. No wait, rock! What do you think?
See our previous whale posts for more dubious whale sightings!
Thanks: Joshk.
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I go for rock. Its longer than 100ft. If it is a sperm whale (the largets whale) it “only” reaches up to 18 m (60 ft). The fin whale (longest whale) up to 24 metres (79 ft).
Fin whales exist in California it appears.
So it looks more like “ground” to me.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin_whale
I’m definitly voting rock on this one.
You can see it at http://www.live.com where the image source is obviously different, so it’s a fixed feature.
Rock
Yeah, definitely a rock. Relatively ancient terraserver imagery shows the same thing.
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=10&Z=10&X=2801&Y=20538&W=3
It’s probably the most whale-shaped rock I’ve ever seen though.
Okay, I got bored and tried my luck looking for more potential whale candidates off the coast of Oregon where humpbacks have been spotted. Can anyone tell me what this is?
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
It reminds me of a torpedo wake, but I can’t think of anything that would leave such a long wake that would stay that narrow. So it’s not a wake, and it’s not a whale… Two down…
And not far from the torpedo trail…. a seaplane at a brown splodge: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
The brown blobette is ghosting isn’t it as per the recent Trail in the Dessert
Have a look at this topographic map - it marks the ‘whale’ as a rock.
I think that “torpedo trail” is just a part of the surface feature of the waves…if you scroll south you can see a large rock with tiny trials streaming off of it to the south that look very similar to the trail.
clearly a rock. the weird straight line thing appears to be something on the sea bed. maybe a pipe or something?
Another option: shipwreck?