Seajet
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Well I'm no fisherman, and I'm sure 365lbs is impressive enough, but I'd reckon the thing we saw was a great deal larger than that, by several orders of magnitude...
Possible Great White shark in English Channel
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Well I'm no fisherman, and I'm sure 365lbs is impressive enough, but I'd reckon the thing we saw was a great deal larger than that, by several orders of magnitude...
Al Dickson
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Here's a clip of a huge Basking Shark I took from the flybridge at the beginning of August, about halfway between Ardrossan & the Isle of Arran - not far short of the length of our 35ft boat - kinda takes your breath away !
http://www.youtube.com/user/sackspeed?blend=7&ob=5#p/u/5/Z_LCKleAOlg
Here's a clip of a huge Basking Shark I took from the flybridge at the beginning of August, about halfway between Ardrossan & the Isle of Arran - not far short of the length of our 35ft boat - kinda takes your breath away !
http://www.youtube.com/user/sackspeed?blend=7&ob=5#p/u/5/Z_LCKleAOlg
bedouin
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Sir, with that sort of exaggeration I'm sure you must be a fishermanWell I'm no fisherman, and I'm sure 365lbs is impressive enough, but I'd reckon the thing we saw was a great deal larger than that, by several orders of magnitude...
(Even a blue whale isn't several orders of magnitude larger)
awol
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Sir, with that sort of exaggeration I'm sure you must be a fisherman
(Even a blue whale isn't several orders of magnitude larger)
Wikipedia reckons 180 tonnes or 403,200lbs for a blue whale. That could count as 3 orders of magnitude and as the crude counting method goes - "one, two, several" .....
Seajet
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I expect people understand what I was getting at...