Comments on: Another Whale! Or is it a Rock?

By: coexist

coexist — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:57:12 +0000

Another option: shipwreck?

By: nova72

nova72 — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:36:35 +0000

clearly a rock. the weird straight line thing appears to be something on the sea bed. maybe a pipe or something?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:29:24 +0000

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.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:15:51 +0000

Have a look at this topographic map - it marks the ‘whale’ as a rock.

By: Mrb

Mrb — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:14:14 +0000

The brown blobette is ghosting isn’t it as per the recent Trail in the Dessert

By: /mel/

/mel/ — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:03:05 +0000

And not far from the torpedo trail…. a seaplane at a brown splodge: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

By: Phillip

Phillip — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:57:40 +0000

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…

By: Phillip

Phillip — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:18:01 +0000

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.

By: Mrb

Mrb — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:11:04 +0000

Rock

By: /mel/

/mel/ — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 06:11:54 +0000

You can see it at http://www.live.com where the image source is obviously different, so it’s a fixed feature.