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nickel
07-26-2003, 12:30 PM
what do you think?

http://www.lemonizer.com/upload/uploads/lastwavein.gif
eSDee
07-26-2003, 12:48 PM
It's a good job if it is. That photo definitely deserves a caption!

"I wonder if crap cleans out of a wetsuit well".
Dirty Sanchez
07-26-2003, 01:05 PM
It's looks real. I've actually seen dolphins ride the wave like that.
Airencracken
07-26-2003, 02:04 PM
It looks real. Damn that'd be a trip wouldn't it. Do do do do do, swimming along and bam a big ass shark! It'd scare the crap out of me!
Freelance Superhero
07-26-2003, 02:15 PM
i think some sharks ride waves like that too, so they can get closer to shallow waters. then they grab their prey and let the tide take them back out to sea... but i dunno if this is necessarily one of those sharks...

and yeah, if you go out to malibu, you see dolphins up close in the waves all the time...
CynJon
07-26-2003, 03:21 PM
When in doubt, ask Snopes.com (http://www.snopes.com/photos/surfer.asp)

Summary:

Origins: The photograph displayed above is indeed real, but it doesn't depict the hair-raising scene most viewers think it does.

This picture was taken by photographer Kurt Jones on 9 April 2003 at Surfrider Beach in Malibu, one of California's premier surfing beaches. But as the version of the photograph posted on the web indicates, however, the ominous-looking finned creature lurking just beneath the surface of the waves is a dolphin (possibly a bottlenose), not a shark.

A subsequent photograph of the animal taken a few seconds after the picture shown above demonstrates conclusively that it was in fact a dolphin:

Still an awesome pic, though! I see turtles up close all the time here in Hawaii and it still always freaks you out for just a second until you make positive ID...:eek:
bachviet
07-26-2003, 07:11 PM
It's a big a$$ dolphin.
Cheesypuff
07-26-2003, 07:37 PM
it's a guy with a plastic shark fin! you can totally see it :P
Kevster
07-26-2003, 10:33 PM
You can usually tell by by the presence of a second dorsal fin. Most sharks have them. Also, from the tail shadow it is definitely not a shark's tail. It's too short and cut back to be a shark's caudal fin.
Dave_7
07-26-2003, 10:44 PM
Originally posted by Cheesypuff
it's a guy with a plastic shark fin! you can totally see it :P
:laugh:



Dave.