these are great!

 

lolz. interesting post. love the pics.

factoid: dolphins can be as big as 9-12 feet.

parallax and the light bending through the water caused the imaged to be distorted.... so controversy.

http://www.wilddolphinadventures.com/dorsal.htm

those look like some pretty sharp dorsal fins to me.

sharks don't have a curve in their dorsal fin

http://www.oceanlight.com/lightbox.php?cs=-763

 

This pic would be a great caption contest! I'll start.



"HOOOLLLYYY SHHHHIIIIIIIITTTTTT!!!!!"

That pretty much sums up what that guy was thinking.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by SoFlaNSX

 

yep, my first instinct was dolphin. My first experience with one freaked me out, haha, but got used to them friendly animals after surfing in Huntington for a while. I miss them...

 

most likely a dolphin, ocean city beaches have a lot of them.

 

Sharks are very common in waves like that, while dolphins prefer more tranquil waters when they're in the shallows. Dolphin are rarely that close to shore when they're that big. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen a dolphin with 50 yards of breaking waves...or 100 yards for that.

And you show us two types of sharks in that website of shark fins...TWO of how many species?? Like 400 or something crazy like that!!

Take a look at a hammerhead's fin, or a black tip, or a lemon shark, or a tiger shark, mako, thrasher...they all have different shape fins while dolphins are predominantly the same.

And a 9-12 foot dolphin is very very rare, and as mentioned, when they're that size, they usually stay quite a ways away from shore.

 

I have so OWNED all of you.

OWNED

OWNED AGAIN

SoFlaNSX, OverBooster -- thank you for playing.

 

Hmm...what happened to the surfer??? And why did the "fish" shrink drastically? and the quality of the photograph changed pretty drastically...

And why did you post the same site twice?

 

sorry, there were 2 hyperlinks-- I got happy after feeling the heat from two self-avowed shark experts, and pasted too quickly for the 2nd link. link now fixed. ownership established.