Could this be a whale?

[Lulu_B]

Is this a speed boat or is it a whale?

What do you reckon?

Speed boat... no, whale... no, speed boat... help! :spin:

[Flying High]

Its a speed boat chasing a whale ! Just Kidding.. Well spotted... I reckon its a whale... heres why...
1. Look at the boat further up from it.. its lines are so clearly defined.
2. If it were a speed boat.. its wake would be much longer (unless it had just started up, in which case its lines would be as clear as the other boat).
3. The wake of the whale ? suggests its in mid blow... you can see a spout of water comming from the top of it... and the front is white because its head has just submerged again.
Hope this helps you... what do others think ?
Check this view of boats further up the coast... see the difference !

[shrinkingman]

Can't be a whale, it would be surrounded by Japanese people killing it. Must be a boat.

[Gandolf]

46.62 meters long. looks like it just breeched.

[BradG7]

:rofl:
It is a boat, whales can't have spray moving forward, unless the whale is disguised as a boat so it can survive the hungry Japs :lol:
Seriously, it is a boat, I labled the overspray from the prow breaking a wave. The more intriguing thing is the fishing nets or something?

[Lulu_B]

Well, I haven't worked out how to measure things on GE yet, but if it is 46 metres long, then it can't be a whale :whine:

I looked up some stuff about whales and the biggest ever whale measured 33 metres (blue whale). So, unless this one is Moby, it is too big.

However, if those strange fishing nets are shrimping nets, maybe the 'whale' is being drawn by the yummy smells.

I have also recently found out that there is supposed to be a whale farm in Hirado, Japan.

I challenge you all to find a real whale!

[Monkey boy]

To me, it looks like a boat. Where the wake starts is where the boat has started from a standstill. A Whale doesn't leave a wake, they are the wrong shape.Their surface is designed to slip through the water, where as a bot displaces the water sieways, thus leaving the tell-tale wake.

[Lord SteveO]

I suspect that is a boat. If you look around the area there are lots of small fishing boats that leave similar wakes.
Probably a small boat turning sharply.
Plus the fact that it is 46+ metres long makes it bigger than any whale ever seen!

[Flying High]

Okay..so its not a whale :mad: .. but SteveO... is 46 metres a small boat to you ?...

Small ship maybee ?

[Lord SteveO]

True...but the other boats in the area are the same size. Maybe a trawler? Not sure what they use in Japan! But 46m is about the size of some fishing boats, not sure what they are catching though.

[spydertl79]

Looks like a boat to me

[Rumple4Skin]

I did notice that it does look like a boat that is about 35 feet long and that the rest is just the wake. And that the largest whale ever recorded was 33 meters long. S0 I think I would have to go with a 35 ft long boat, despite how long the spray is.

[Lord SteveO]

It's a boat. Having looked at other boats with long wakes i can say it looks very smilar. The wake it not huge, if you want big wakes then look in the north of San Fransico Bay. There's some power boats there.

[GEH4EVR]

Could the spray coming out of the top of it be like a fire boat?!

[kathkwilts]

I am almost positive that this is a whale. If you look very close, you can see a tail, as well as the breeching spout.

[Monkey boy]

:lol: A Whale at 150 feet long, hahahahah :lol: (46 meters)

I don't think so

A Blue whale is only 70 to 80 feet long and that's the world's largest creature.

[thecrisp]

Can't be a whale, it would be surrounded by Japanese people killing it. Must be a boat.

Who said the Japanese aren't coming to kill it? ;)

[BradG7]

It's a boat, I'll bet money on it. I can tell you it is probably a fishing boat, notice how the thrust only extends behind theboat for a short distance, indicating it just accelerated from a dead stop, and I can tell from the thrust that it is a single prop boat.

[thecrisp]

A fishing boat 215.63 feet long, that's bigger than a blue whale! ;)

[shrinkingman]

Surely this all depends on what you're measuring. I think most of it is wake, the object itself is only about 46 ft. I'm pretty sure we're not looking at something which is more than 150 ft long. I'd love it to be a whale but I think it's a boat.

[thecrisp]

That's the measurement for the 'warship' I sent in, not the whale/boat!

[shrinkingman]

I know, I got that. Monkey Boy and Gandolf both suggested the object itself was around 46 metres/150 feet. If I'd meant yours I would have said 216 feet.

[i-link]

Hi!

Nice finding! :-)

For me it looks like someone waterskiing. The boatlength seems rigth (ca. 19 feet if you measure from the front to where it seems to me that the boat stops ). But the distance to the waterskiier is a bit short.

I do not think it is a whale because of the "tracking" in the water, do not think whales swim that fast...exept partywhales on extasy... :-)

Think I am going to try finding some whales. Maybe start along the Norwegian coast. Keiko from "Free Willy" movies died in a fjord here...