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To: frithguild

That looks too big to be a nurse shark.


22 posted on 12/17/2010 12:31:59 PM PST by montyspython
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To: montyspython

Guy in the back is pretty far away. Nothing in the picture to give you scale. The dorsal fin is way back, which excludes an oceanic white tip. That is not a Mako tail. Both of those species are suspects. This fish is clearly neither.


25 posted on 12/17/2010 12:36:35 PM PST by frithguild (The Democrat Party Brand - Big Government protecting Entrenched Interests from Competition)
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To: montyspython

Acutually sorry. All we can see is the belly, not the dorsal.


27 posted on 12/17/2010 12:38:10 PM PST by frithguild (The Democrat Party Brand - Big Government protecting Entrenched Interests from Competition)
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To: montyspython
Oceanic White Tip:

Bull:

Mako


37 posted on 12/17/2010 1:03:29 PM PST by frithguild (The Democrat Party Brand - Big Government protecting Entrenched Interests from Competition)
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