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Whats that in the background ?



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Mar 3, 2008
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When on holiday in Wales last month I took some snaps of my granddaughter on a loverly beach near Tenby. Looking at 2 of the pictures taken 3 seconds apart it looks like there's a sharks fin in the background.
I'm sure there's someone on NSC who is a angler or knows about fish could identify what it is.
 

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Taybha

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Oct 8, 2008
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If a fin at all its likely to be a basking shark as they come in real close during july august to graze on plankton ect,harmless giants.
 






skipper734

Registered ruffian
Aug 9, 2008
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Curdridge
If a fin at all its likely to be a basking shark as they come in real close during july august to graze on plankton ect,harmless giants.

That's two votes for Basking Shark. Saw one twenty foot off a breakwater in Seaford once. Kin huge.
 




brakespear

Doctor Worm
Feb 24, 2009
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Sleeping on the roof
If a fin at all its likely to be a basking shark as they come in real close during july august to graze on plankton ect,harmless giants.

This. We used to see them quite often when I lived in Cornwall.
 


Taybha

Whalewhine
Oct 8, 2008
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well this is a pic of the fin of a basking shark that would break the surface as they feed its very similar in shape to your photo so the odds are it is a basking shark.

bask-shark-dorsal-fin-close.jpg
 


Taybha

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Oct 8, 2008
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That's two votes for Basking Shark. Saw one twenty foot off a breakwater in Seaford once. Kin huge.

Used to see them a lot as a lad when the west pier was still open,havnt seen any for years and years. i remember they showed up 4 summers on the trot a large group then nothing for years. Fantastic creatures
 




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Mar 3, 2008
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well this is a pic of the fin of a basking shark that would break the surface as they feed its very similar in shape to your photo so the odds are it is a basking shark.

bask-shark-dorsal-fin-close.jpg

Looks just like the fin in my picture, I reckon your right
 












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