Stunning 'world-first' night-time images show a whale shark hoovering up a spiral of plankton [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | March 30, 2018 | Iain Burns

[C19fan]

This is the incredible moment a whale shark gulped down a never-before-photographed 'tornado' of plankton.

Warren Baverstock, 49, hung a single light off the back of a boat to attract the phytoplankton that the huge fish love to eat - and then waited patiently out in the dark ocean.

He was delighted when a 11.4ft juvenile whale shark rose from the depths to gobble up the plumes of gathering food, and he hopped in to capture silhouetted by the light.

[C19fan]

I want to go the the ATL Aquarium and look at whale sharks all day long.

[Varda]

Cool!

[choctaw man]

Like Hillary going after a cheeseburger.

[bk1000]

Wasn’t that image lifted from the story about Oprah’s bathtub the other day?

[Bigg Red]

Thanks for posting this. Such incredible photos!

[blam]

Every time I see a Lexus automobile I think of the above 'fish' picture.

[Axenolith]

I think Lexus designers watched to much TOS Battlestar, they look like the grills on old school cylons.

[Olog-hai]

I see the English writers are still using the word “Hoover” as a noun that means “vacuum cleaner” and even go so far as to turn it into a pseudo-verb, “Hoovering”.

[Moonman62]

I think the article is saying the phytoplankton formed their own tornado. It wasn’t something done by the fish to herd them.

[blam]

"I think Lexus designers watched to much TOS Battlestar, they look like the grills on old school cylons."

They're very ugly.

[Pride in the USA]

So cool!

[Joe 6-pack]

I always thought they looked like grasshopper mouths.

[blam]

"I always thought they looked like grasshopper mouths."

I can 'see' that too.

[minnesota_bound]

I wonder how many swimmers perhaps named Jonah have been swallowed whole by this creatures?

[Osage Orange]

Long time ago...played baseball with a first base man we all called Hoover.....

[lonevoice]

Thanks for pinging me to the pics. They’re mesmerizing.