My Anut told me this she was going To Hawii and the run way is near the water so when they were getting down to land there was something that was as big as 2 adult male whales and it was gray it wasnt a whale cause it was going in the way of a shark and it was narrow like a shark and it was moving so it couldnt of been like just a rock
Opions?
2007-11-21 08:50:38 · 4 answers · asked by FC11 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
As big as two adult whales.... well it depends on the species of whale.
If we are talking about humpback whales, your aunt is crazy.
However there are also smaller species of whales.
Anyway, there are white sharks around hawaii but it is rather rare. Even then white sharks are not larger than two grown whales.
Whale sharks have been seen around Hawaii but they tend to top out around 40 feet long.
The only other large shark that she might be talking about is a basking shark.
It might very well have been a whale if it is as large as she thinks it was. I know you said that its swimming pattern was that of a shark, but whales are known to twist and roll while swimming and if they are at the right angle it can appear like the movement of a shark.
2007-11-21 10:31:29 · answer #1 · answered by The Cheshire 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, It depends on the type of whale your talking about. It was probaly a basking shark which feed on plankton and are pretty big and they look like a big shark. but there are reports of monster sharks and megalodons. Megalodons where 60-70 foot sharks that were supposed to have gone extinct 1.6 million years ago but theres been newly fossilied teeth from up to 11,000 years ago which in geolical terms, yesterday. and there been sighting in warm water all over the globe specially near shores where (if they were like normal sharks) the babies go to begin hunting.
2007-11-23 23:22:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
* There a whale shark (40 ft), a basking shark (larger) and a megamouth shark (largest). Don't know their habitats.
Secondly, it's pretty hard to judge the size of something "out there" without a reference (like a man standing on its back).
2007-11-21 20:31:42 · answer #3 · answered by Bacse 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
whats your question?
was it a shark..most likely.. hawaii has a ton of them so it was possible
2007-11-21 17:13:37 · answer #4 · answered by kungfu Kristen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋