bigmatt23
Tourist
Reged: 04/28/06
Posts: 7
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Is this a whale? It is about 17metres in length.
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heamit
Master Cartographer
Reged: 10/26/06
Posts: 2333
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Great find, bigmatt23!  
This area is renowned for whales (see also this post and this post) so I have no doubt you are correct.
Nice work! 
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Hombre64
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Reged: 02/08/08
Posts: 4
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Hello folks,
I'm new to that forum and therefore not shure if I'm posting at the right place here.
About 1.5 kilometers off Valparaiso I found something looking like a big whale. It's about 20 meters long.
What do you think about it?
cu, Hombre64
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danescombe
Master Guide
Reged: 11/07/05
Posts: 10238
Loc: UK
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Welcome to GEC Hombre64
What you have found is a boat. You can see the wake turbulence kicked up be the engines. However --if you follow the links in Heamits post above --you can see real whales off the coast Australia, Argentina and California
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Hill
Master Guide
Reged: 10/31/04
Posts: 9341
Loc: Southern California
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This one looked good at first, Hombre64, but I think it is a 65' boat. It is much too broad for a whale. See the attached overlay of a Blue Whale, scaled to 110', the largest known size of this largest of species. The wake also looks typical of a boat, not a whale. But keep looking...
Wikipedia link
Edited by Hill (02/08/08 03:16 PM)
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Hombre64
Tourist
Reged: 02/08/08
Posts: 4
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Thanks a lot,
I just looked at most of the whales posted here.
I also thought, someone must have seen my "whale" before but give it a try  .
Thanks again for your fast help and greetz from Vienna, Hombre64
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Diane9247
Humanitarian
Reged: 01/15/07
Posts: 2035
Loc: Californian in Oregon
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Great job of whale-spotting, Hombre64! Imagine what we'd find if more ocean was hi-res.
The Valparaiso one looks convincing - I would think it was a whale, too, after finding the one in Australia. But, I can see what looks like a smokestack (or something) sticking up in the middle of the boat.
Hope you're looking for more!
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dirty130
First Post
Reged: 06/16/08
Posts: 1
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Yep, sure is. I can be sure of this as this is my photography turf, Have seen this from a lot closer many times
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