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Forums > General Discussion   Shooting the breeze...

Whale shark nearly swallows diver

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Created by SomeOtherGuy > 9 months ago, 22 Jul 2011
doggie
WA, 15849 posts
22 Jul 2011 11:09AM
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Awesome pic!! Jeepers you would crap yourself wouldnt you!!??!!

nebbian
WA, 6277 posts
22 Jul 2011 11:14AM
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Was his name Jonah?

Macroscien
QLD, 6806 posts
22 Jul 2011 1:16PM
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excellent, but to compete there should be second photo
closeup up the teeth-works taken by that lucky photographer
and the third one from inside the belly
-apparently there was whole expedition of photographers there


pinch me if that is not the Murdoch envoy sending justice to leakers

oceanfire
WA, 718 posts
22 Jul 2011 12:59PM
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nebbian said...

Was his name Jonah?


HAHA! Beat me to it!

subasurf
WA, 2154 posts
22 Jul 2011 2:31PM
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Cool picture, but the article title is a crock of ****.

rodders67
NSW, 176 posts
22 Jul 2011 4:51PM
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subasurf said...

Cool picture, but the article title is a crock of ****.


they phone tapped the photographer. they were his words Media thought they'd use that wisely

SomeOtherGuy
NSW, 807 posts
22 Jul 2011 5:09PM
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subasurf said...

Cool picture, but the article title is a crock of ****.


Yeah but it gets people in.

To be fair though, it does say in there somewhere eventually that if he'd gone in, the shark would've spat him out.

FlySurfer
NSW, 4456 posts
22 Jul 2011 6:39PM
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complete crock o'****... the diver is OBVIOUSLY >3m to the right... get some perspective.

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japie
NSW, 7016 posts
22 Jul 2011 7:14PM
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FlySurfer said...

complete crock o'****... the diver is OBVIOUSLY >3m to the right... get some perspective.


Plankton feeders often screw up and choke on things that aren't plankton, specially divers. That is why they have not made it long into the evolutionary scale.

saltiest1
NSW, 2509 posts
22 Jul 2011 9:30PM
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my sis almost went in in 1989. very close call.

saltiest1
NSW, 2509 posts
22 Jul 2011 9:32PM
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japie said...

FlySurfer said...

complete crock o'****... the diver is OBVIOUSLY >3m to the right... get some perspective.


Plankton feeders often screw up and choke on things that aren't plankton, specially divers. That is why they have not made it long into the evolutionary scale.



huh?? so if a species chokes a bit but still exists, thats the reason it happens?

japie
NSW, 7016 posts
22 Jul 2011 9:50PM
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saltiest1 said...

japie said...

FlySurfer said...

complete crock o'****... the diver is OBVIOUSLY >3m to the right... get some perspective.


Plankton feeders often screw up and choke on things that aren't plankton, specially divers. That is why they have not made it long into the evolutionary scale.



huh?? so if a species chokes a bit but still exists, thats the reason it happens?


Yeah, whenever I go to the beach I skid around on **** that has been coughed up by plankton feeders. Whale sharks have only been around for a couple of thousand years and still make horrendous mistakes, just like the one in the photo above. You can see it is about to choke on the diver.

Later on, when it has evolved a bit, say over the next five years (and if it survives choking on divers and any other foreign matter lurking around pretending to be plantkton that it may engulf by mistake), then we will know that the evolutionary process is running tickety boo!

saltiest1
NSW, 2509 posts
22 Jul 2011 9:57PM
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if they have only been around for a couple of thousand years, what were they 2500 years ago?
and does evolution change things that fast? 5 years? amazing.

japie
NSW, 7016 posts
22 Jul 2011 10:14PM
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saltiest1 said...

if they have only been around for a couple of thousand years, what were they 2500 years ago?
and does evolution change things that fast? 5 years? amazing.


2500 years ago they were likely plankton that had not been swallowed, sort of just ganged up together and became engulfers. Probably with an agenda for swallowing divers.

Mate, never underestimate evolution. I watched Michael Jackson evolve, surprised David Attenborough has not tackled the subject, sorry , object.

saltiest1
NSW, 2509 posts
22 Jul 2011 10:37PM
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no. michael jackson mutated.

saltiest1
NSW, 2509 posts
22 Jul 2011 10:46PM
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might want to check the time frame though. 500 years seems a little quick for plankton to evolve into a whale shark

subasurf
WA, 2154 posts
22 Jul 2011 10:14PM
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These last few posts by Japie has just made my brain melt with it's amount of retardation

"Whale sharks have only been around for a couple of thousand years"

Uhhm....no sure if serious or taking the piss.

The whale shark is estimated to have been around in it's current form for over 60 million years...which is basically just after the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.

SomeOtherGuy
NSW, 807 posts
23 Jul 2011 12:40AM
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subasurf said...

Uhhm....no sure if serious or taking the piss.


It's Friday night. I'm assuming there's a fair bit of libation involved. Maybe doc's leftover margeritas.

SomeOtherGuy
NSW, 807 posts
23 Jul 2011 12:41AM
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Either that or he's had a brain snap.

japie
NSW, 7016 posts
23 Jul 2011 9:00AM
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No libation, am on a sabatical.

It was an attempt at cutting sarcasm. Sorry it was not more tranparent.

The abject depths of ignorance constantly on display courtesy of our journalistic friends who insist on featuring articles such as the one featured make me want to puke.

Unfortunately it would appear that the majority of the population will view an article like that and go away thinking that the diver was lucky not to have been swallowed by a relic from the past whose ancestors evolved over millions of years while feeding on plankton.

People who write articles like that should stick to producing superman comics and drawing with crayons.

japie
NSW, 7016 posts
23 Jul 2011 9:43AM
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See what you make of this, it is a pretty good example of the behaviour that drives folk to emmigrate:





Has the chimp evolved or have the soldiers regressed?

FlySurfer
NSW, 4456 posts
23 Jul 2011 12:09PM
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There's still hope for us

SomeOtherGuy
NSW, 807 posts
23 Jul 2011 1:40PM
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Jee Zus!

It's a feckin' filler article designed to take some space and give people a bit of light reading and say "whoa man!" while giving the website somewhere to hang some advertising. It's NOT meant to be a feckin' academic treatise on the feeding habit of West Australian Lesser Spotted Whale feckin' Shark during the feckin' winter season! And that video that flysurfer put up is not even in the same country, never mind the same event.

Fer chrissake, if anyone should get some perspective it'd be you two.

FlySurfer
NSW, 4456 posts
23 Jul 2011 2:00PM
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@someotherguy: here some perspective for you: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideation(idea_generation)

Ideation is the creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas, where an idea is understood as a basic element of thought that can be either visual, concrete, or abstract.[1] Ideation is all stages of a thought cycle, from innovation, to development, to actualization.[2] As such, it is an essential part of the design process, both in education and practice.

japie
NSW, 7016 posts
23 Jul 2011 2:12PM
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^^ Damn, you beat me to it!

Hangover, SomeOtherGuy?

subasurf
WA, 2154 posts
23 Jul 2011 4:54PM
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SomeOtherGuy said...

Fer chrissake, if anyone should get some perspective it'd be you two.


Awww...don't be such a butthurt little girl.

subasurf
WA, 2154 posts
23 Jul 2011 4:56PM
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japie said...

See what you make of this, it is a pretty good example of the behaviour that drives folk to emmigrate:





Has the chimp evolved or have the soldiers regressed?


There's a chimp in that video?

SomeOtherGuy
NSW, 807 posts
23 Jul 2011 8:13PM
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japie said...

^^ Damn, you beat me to it!

Hangover, SomeOtherGuy?


Nahh. It's called "venting"...

SomeOtherGuy
NSW, 807 posts
23 Jul 2011 8:59PM
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FlySurfer said...

@someotherguy: here some perspective for you: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideation(idea_generation)


Interesting stuff. Here's something that should help explain that for you en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_King

elcoco
WA, 114 posts
23 Jul 2011 7:41PM
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I have spent a fair few hours swimming with those wonderful fish of the ningaloo coast.

Didn't look near to swallowing the diver to me.



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