SigmundChurchill Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 So, I’m sitting here on the back deck, smoking my Vigia, and this thing pops up out of the water. It looks bigger than any dolphin I have ever seen, and it doesn’t look like it has a long thin nose. I used an iPhone and I had to take the picture quickly before it went under again, so it isn’t the greatest pic. Are there any marine life experts out there that can tell what this is?
SigmundChurchill Posted July 28, 2018 Author Posted July 28, 2018 Just now, Weaponiz'd1 said: I don't see anything The pic got cut off. I re posted it.
nealnyc Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 Hard to tell, but I wouldn't dip my feet in the water. 1
SigmundChurchill Posted July 28, 2018 Author Posted July 28, 2018 2 minutes ago, Weaponiz'd1 said: Dolphins generally do a pretty, smooth, arch when surfacing. What did this creature do? He came up and hovered for a few seconds at a time. It almost looked like he was rolling a bit from side to side. He was moving at a fast rate.
SigmundChurchill Posted July 28, 2018 Author Posted July 28, 2018 2 minutes ago, Fuzz said: Maybe Nessie is on vacation? Haha. Right? Where is the good telephoto camera when you need one?
habanos1972 Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 I think you took a picture of the elusive covfefe. You can see the dorsal fins do vary from species. These are sharks indigenous to my waters off New Jersey. So it could be... good eyes...
SigmundChurchill Posted July 28, 2018 Author Posted July 28, 2018 1 minute ago, habanos1972 said: I think you took a picture of the elusive covfefe. You can see the dorsal fins do vary from species. These are sharks indigenous to my waters off New Jersey. So it could be... good eyes... I could actually see it a lot better than the picture would indicate, but it looked like any shark I have ever seen in the movies. A guy from the Marine Division of the local police just came by and he said it is definitely not a dolphin because the fin is not a dolphin fin, but he couldn’t tell from the picture whether it was a shark or a whale. He took a copy of the picture and said he was going to show it to the higher ups to get their opinion.
habanos1972 Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 9 minutes ago, SigmundChurchill said: I could actually see it a lot better than the picture would indicate, but it looked like any shark I have ever seen in the movies. A guy from the Marine Division of the local police just came by and he said it is definitely not a dolphin because the fin is not a dolphin fin, but he couldn’t tell from the picture whether it was a shark or a whale. He took a copy of the picture and said he was going to show it to the higher ups to get their opinion. Always good to get someone involved from the Marine Division. Better to be safe than sorry.
havanaclub Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 I would stick to smoking on your deck for now Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1
BellevilleMXZ Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 2 hours ago, nealnyc said: Hard to tell, but I wouldn't dip my feet in the water. Same here!
... Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 Seem like the whole body forward of the fin surfaced on the picture. Could this be a specie of pilot dolphin/porpoise?
Islandboy Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 The only time I saw a shark on the surface, I could see the fin above water, plus a bit of the tail trailing it. And none of the body.
alloy Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 Stay OUT of the water!!!! da-dum-da-dum-da-dum (theme from JAWS) ?
El Hoze Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 I grew up on the water in NJ. That is a mammal of some sort as a shark won’t surface like that under most conditions. Also the trailing edge has too much curvature to be a shark. With water temps in the Northeast now in the mid 70s could be a few different types of dolphin or porpoise. 2 1
SigmundChurchill Posted July 28, 2018 Author Posted July 28, 2018 1 hour ago, Jeanff said: Seem like the whole body forward of the fin surfaced on the picture. Could this be a specie of pilot dolphin/porpoise? 43 minutes ago, El Hoze said: I grew up on the water in NJ. That is a mammal of some sort as a shark won’t surface like that under most conditions. Also the trailing edge has too much curvature to be a shark. With water temps in the Northeast now in the mid 70s could be a few different types of dolphin or porpoise. I suppose it could have been a pilot dolphin. I didnt even know what that was until I just googled it. The main reason i didnt think it would be a dolphin is because it lacked the dolphin snout, but the pilot dolphin doesn't seem to have one either. But then, the marine cop sounded pretty sure that it was not a dolphin fin. And this was much bigger than any dolphin I have ever seen. Darker as well.
Ken Gargett Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 my immediate thought was a small killer whale. but be odd to have a small one solo. they ever in your area? i wonder if what you guys call pilot dolphins is what we call pilot whales. could be one of them.
SigmundChurchill Posted July 28, 2018 Author Posted July 28, 2018 1 hour ago, Ken Gargett said: my immediate thought was a small killer whale. but be odd to have a small one solo. they ever in your area? i wonder if what you guys call pilot dolphins is what we call pilot whales. could be one of them. These waters are full of different kinds of whales. Nearby Montauk is known for great whale watching boat tours. But I dont know about killer whales. You dont hear about them too much here.
Ken Gargett Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 Just now, SigmundChurchill said: These waters are full of different kinds of whales. Nearby Montauk is known for great whale watching boat tours. But I dont know about killer whales. You dont hear about them too much here. don't know all that much about them but i do know that they travel a lot, though not so much to warmer waters. though i wonder how warm those waters would be? and they are very often found where there are other whales. but if you had the marine guy look at it, and presumably he has some expertise, then my thought would be that if it was a killer whale, it would have occurred to him immediately. that he did not mention them suggests to me that he does not think it at all likely.
ayepatz Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 7 hours ago, habanos1972 said: I think you took a picture of the elusive covfefe. They get a lot of negative press.
SigmundChurchill Posted July 28, 2018 Author Posted July 28, 2018 3 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said: don't know all that much about them but i do know that they travel a lot, though not so much to warmer waters. though i wonder how warm those waters would be? and they are very often found where there are other whales. but if you had the marine guy look at it, and presumably he has some expertise, then my thought would be that if it was a killer whale, it would have occurred to him immediately. that he did not mention them suggests to me that he does not think it at all likely. He was pushing the whale, instead of shark, theory pretty hard. So much so that I told him he sounded like the mayor of the town in Jaws. He just didn’t get more specific as to the type of whale.
Ken Gargett Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 1 minute ago, SigmundChurchill said: He was pushing the whale, instead of shark, theory pretty hard. So much so that I told him he sounded like the mayor of the town in Jaws. He just didn’t get more specific as to the type of whale. NEVER understood how the mayor got through that film without becoming dinner. 1
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