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Joe Boxer · Joined: 25 Dec 2007 Location: Bundang, South Korea

You know that Discovery Channel song, "I Love the World"?

There's a line that says "I love when great whites fly", and a friend thinks it shows a great white shark at that moment.

BUT...

I think it shows a whale!

What animal is it (at the 18 sec. mark)?

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=RIoBXdQX_wY

the ireland · Joined: 11 May 2008 Location: korea

if it is a shark i will eat my own test.icl.es!!!

DaveMcK · Joined: 22 Oct 2008

That's definitely a great white; no question.

http://www.elasmodiver.com/images/Great-White-Shark-002.jpg

And if there's any doubt

BritishinSuwon · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:01 pm Post subject:

It's a breaching Great White, for sure.

Really, I can't see how anyone can think it's a whale. It doesn't even look like a whale.

ceesgetdegrees · Joined: 12 Jul 2007

A truly beautiful creature. It would be an honour to be eaten alive by one. Thas how i'm going out ladies and gents, chomped by the apex predator of the sea. lovely.

DaveMcK · Joined: 22 Oct 2008

DaveMcK · Joined: 22 Oct 2008

Underwaterbob · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito

Here you go:

http://www.break.com/index/great-white-shark-breach.html

That's settled.

ReeseDog · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Location: Classified

HapKi · Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL

Myth Busters (on the Discovery channel) did a segment on breaching Great Whites, to see if dolphins swimming with seals protect them from Great White attacks. First they trolled out a silhouette of a seal, using a piece of carpet. WHAMM! A Great White was on it within minutes. Then they did the same thing with a mechanical dolphin in the vicinity, and sharks didn't respond. (Dolphins are know to attack sharks because they are faster.)

There are a lot of clips on that BoomBeAtta song. Most of which aren't shown on Korean Discovery (At least I don't see them.)

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

How could anybody in any way think that it is anything but a great white?

Faunaki · Joined: 15 Jun 2007

At first I thought it was an orca but then at the 17 sec mark you can the nose looks exactly like a shark's.

seoulsucker · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 5:24 pm Post subject:

At the peak of the jump the GW's tail is twisted in a horizontal position that is characteristic of aquatic mammals. That might explain the confusion.

joeheckel · Joined: 13 Oct 2008 Location: Seoul

Initial impression was it was an Orca but after several replays, definitely a GW Shark

BS.Dos. · Joined: 29 Mar 2007

This must be the most absurd case of mistaken identity ever. Of course it's a Great white.