Not having a Good Day - check this guy out

[FreakinDJ]

[mdmc]

1. man, I know that feeling..

[Taverner]

2. What the HELL is that thing???

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[kenny blankenship]

3. whale shark

harmless unless you just get in the way of its tail or something.
the shark maybe wondering what that diver is, but it probably can't see him.

[FreakinDJ]

4. The American voter going after Cantor

[petronius]

5. Funny picture, but that's got to be one of the best days of his life

Heck, I'd give my left testicle (figuratively speaking) to be in that position...

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. Here, fishy, fishy, fishy. I've got a nice bucket of plankton for you......

The other shots of this incident showed two of them lil' fellers.

Pretty cool.

[petronius]

7. Do you have a link to more images?

I'd love to see it...

[A HERETIC I AM]

11. Yahoo had the story yesterday or the day before with a few more pics but I can't find it now.

The story doesn't come up on their search bar, which is weird.

Found this on a google search of the encounter, but the Yahoo story had a shot that showed two of them, one of the photos was from above the water.
http://animaltracks.today.com/_news/2011/07/22/7141073-gulp-diver-is-almost-swallowed-by-whale-shark?GT1=43001

Edited to add; Story from The Daily Mail with a pic showing several of the animals;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017167/Open-wide-The-diver-nearly-got-swallowed-whaleshark.html

[petronius]

17. Very cool, thank you. That shot with the 3 sharks together is amazing...

[handmade34]

8. Jonah and the Whale...

:-)

[Lost-in-FL]

9. Incredible picture! But. Are you sure is real? nt

[davepc]

13. They are that big.

[liberal N proud]

10. That tops this Oh Shit moment

[Kennah]

12. May I request a "call bullshit" sidebar?

Maybe there's a perfectly good explanation or underwater phenomenon, but why does the fish so dramatically change color at the base of it's pectoral fin?

My only explanations are that it's emerging from Narnia, or this is the work of PhotoShop.

[tammywammy]

16. It's real

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017167/Open-wide-The-diver-nearly-got-swallowed-whaleshark.html

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/9894262/diver-almost-gets-swallowed-by-whale-shark/

[petronius]

19. That line is demarcating the edge of the gill cover - it's not a continuous

surface from head to tail. Given how wide open the mouth is, I'd bet there's a pretty large gap and change in angle between the darker and lighter areas...

[Kennah]

21. I may not have explained very well

There's a clear line around the body of the animal, not head to tail, in which everything in the front half looks much darker than everything in the rear half, including the pectoral.

[petronius]

23. No, you were clear, but I really think that's the gill

There's a bigger change in distance (from camera) and angle (to illumination) across that line than is readily apparent...

[CleanGreenFuture]

14. The diver is further away in the image and we're seeing an optical illusion. The shark

wouldn't eat the guy anyway. They don't eat people as they are filter feeders and consume plankton.

[leeroysphitz]

15. That is a sizable image. n/t

[AlabamaLibrul]

20. Nobody has a monitor the size of the viewing screen on the Enterprise

I see no reason to ever post an image larger than about 1000px on the long side on the web.

[Poll_Blind]

18. Even though whale sharks are harmless, that image has me shitting bricks.

Somehow it's a metaphor for all the things I found frightening as a kid, growing up on the Gulf Coast.

PB

[LadyLeigh]

22. That is one big animal.