Fort Ross 9/14 & Whoa thats one big dorsal fin

Basking shark.........mola mola...........bigfoot.........

"Denial (also called abnegation) is a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence."

Wasn't trying to doubt it wasn't a shark. That area has tons of 'em and there's a very good chance it was. Especially the third pic. Just saying from those pics it's hard to ID.

Z

I don't have a lot of experience watching giant sharks , but several times in SoCal we saw more than one basking shark at a time and the fins looked just like that-a big triangular dorsal with no noticeable caudal fin, hanging on the surface for 10 minutes or more at a time. I've never seen a mola large enough to have a dorsal that size but it could be, since I know they get huge. Wouldn't a mola fin be waving a bit though?

My $ would be on a basking shark.
Very cool pics n report!

Yowza!  Two words - NO THANKS!

Although it does remind me of a punchline to a joke.  You don't have to be faster than the shark, you just have to be faster than your buddy.

Michael

COOL , whatever it is ! First thing I thought of was " WE need a bigger boat ! "

Basking shark.........mola mola...........bigfoot.........

"Denial (also called abnegation) is a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence."

Wasn't trying to doubt it wasn't a shark. That area has tons of 'em and there's a very good chance it was. Especially the third pic. Just saying from those pics it's hard to ID.

Z

I know, I know, I was joking. Although I would still have crapped myself. Or fainted. Or both.