Too big to be a shark and too fast for a whale. So what is the mystery creature captured by Google

UK Daily Mail ^ | December 15, 2014 | Sarah Dean

[C19fan]

A giant mystery sea creature is thought to have been spotted in the turquoise waters of one of New Zealand’s most idyllic bays. A huge unexplained wake can be seen in a Google Earth image of Oke Bay, in the Bay of Islands, an area on the east coast of the Far North District of the country's North Island, captured by satellite at about 11.30am on January 30. Engineer Pita Witehira, who spotted the wake while on Google Earth researching for his holiday home, told Daily Mail Australia the wake could have been left by a creature around 12 metres in size.

[G Larry]

Yes, all qualify:

Amorphous
&
Slimy

[rktman]

rosetta stone.

[JimRed]

Red Chinese midget submarine.

[Texas Songwriter]

Giant Nudibranch

[Sicon]

Looks an awful lot like waves forming around a long ridge on the sea floor. The ridge is below the surface, so the waves don’t break and produce white caps. Duh.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 12/15/2014. Thanks C19fan.

[SunkenCiv]

[gleeaikin]

Looking at the complex object floating around the oil rig, my first thought was a large bundle of old plastic, like the 20 by 50 feet or large rolls you can buy at Home Depot after it has floated around the ocean for a few years, with some phosphorescence inside. The surprise was the cluster of smaller white objects found near the bottom. Any other thoughts?

[Cringing Negativism Network]

That (if it is the photo) looks like a submerged drain-pipe which is outputting on the upper right side of the photo.

But it is doing so from far enough from the shore so that it’s not obvious.

The pile comes from the lower-left where is emerges from the bottom (buried again, to avoid interaction with the shore)

[Jack Hydrazine]

Have no idea.

[SunkenCiv]

I’d be surprised if there’s any pipe there.

It looks like it *could* be caused by the submerged remains of a listing ship that went down, but it would be a pretty large ship in such a small harbor.