Cool photo too:

au.news.yahoo.com/diver-almost-gets-swallowed-by-whale-shark-9894262.html

Was his name Jonah?

nebbian said...

Was his name Jonah?

HAHA! Beat me to it!

subasurf said...

Cool picture, but the article title is a crock of ****.

they phone tapped the photographer. they were his words Media thought they'd use that wisely

complete crock o'****... the diver is OBVIOUSLY >3m to the right... get some perspective.

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my sis almost went in in 1989. very close call.

saltiest1 said...

japie said...

FlySurfer said...

complete crock o'****... the diver is OBVIOUSLY >3m to the right... get some perspective.

Plankton feeders often screw up and choke on things that aren't plankton, specially divers. That is why they have not made it long into the evolutionary scale.

huh?? so if a species chokes a bit but still exists, thats the reason it happens?

Yeah, whenever I go to the beach I skid around on **** that has been coughed up by plankton feeders. Whale sharks have only been around for a couple of thousand years and still make horrendous mistakes, just like the one in the photo above. You can see it is about to choke on the diver.

Later on, when it has evolved a bit, say over the next five years (and if it survives choking on divers and any other foreign matter lurking around pretending to be plantkton that it may engulf by mistake), then we will know that the evolutionary process is running tickety boo!

saltiest1 said...

if they have only been around for a couple of thousand years, what were they 2500 years ago?
and does evolution change things that fast? 5 years? amazing.

2500 years ago they were likely plankton that had not been swallowed, sort of just ganged up together and became engulfers. Probably with an agenda for swallowing divers.

Mate, never underestimate evolution. I watched Michael Jackson evolve, surprised David Attenborough has not tackled the subject, sorry , object.

might want to check the time frame though. 500 years seems a little quick for plankton to evolve into a whale shark

subasurf said...

Uhhm....no sure if serious or taking the piss.

It's Friday night. I'm assuming there's a fair bit of libation involved. Maybe doc's leftover margeritas.

No libation, am on a sabatical.

It was an attempt at cutting sarcasm. Sorry it was not more tranparent.

The abject depths of ignorance constantly on display courtesy of our journalistic friends who insist on featuring articles such as the one featured make me want to puke.

Unfortunately it would appear that the majority of the population will view an article like that and go away thinking that the diver was lucky not to have been swallowed by a relic from the past whose ancestors evolved over millions of years while feeding on plankton.

People who write articles like that should stick to producing superman comics and drawing with crayons.

There's still hope for us

@someotherguy: here some perspective for you: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideation(idea_generation)

Ideation is the creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas, where an idea is understood as a basic element of thought that can be either visual, concrete, or abstract.[1] Ideation is all stages of a thought cycle, from innovation, to development, to actualization.[2] As such, it is an essential part of the design process, both in education and practice.

SomeOtherGuy said...

Fer chrissake, if anyone should get some perspective it'd be you two.

Awww...don't be such a butthurt little girl.

japie said...

^^ Damn, you beat me to it!

Hangover, SomeOtherGuy?

Nahh. It's called "venting"...

I have spent a fair few hours swimming with those wonderful fish of the ningaloo coast.

Didn't look near to swallowing the diver to me.