Allan McLane wrote: > > As a follow-up to my earlier message about your probably having > seen a basking shark, see the following url's: ...<snip>... >From the information in these sites it seems likely that the fish Dennis saw was *not* a basking shark. He describes it as having a body that "looked to be close to four feet tall and maybe five feet long". This is consistent with a sunfish, but not a basking shark. These large sunfish bask at the surface (like basking sharks), and are often mistaken for sharks from a distance, but up close it is easy to tell them apart due to their radically different body shapes. I think that Dennis got it right--his description is in every way consistent with a sunfish. Dan Hagen *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Oct 04 1999 - 08:23:32 PDT
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