Heart attack situation?

I think I'd certainly change the water to a brown colour...

God that's a fab photo, really menacing.

Fantastic photo....

... but it's a dolphin

Originally Posted by Woz

Fantastic photo....

... but it's a dolphin

There's always one that spoils the fun aint there?

Thought TBH, I was expecting it to be someone like Miss_YC (interest in marine biology), because dolphin fins are rounded at the back. Sharks have a straighter fin.

[Stu]

I was sailing a one man(child) dinghy when a fin broke the surface in front of me. I was tooscared to turn the boat around as it was so windy even though I was heading out to sea

its a bank manager, even more menacing.

Originally Posted by Baph

There's always one that spoils the fun aint there?

Thought TBH, I was expecting it to be someone like Miss_YC (interest in marine biology), because dolphin fins are rounded at the back. Sharks have a straighter fin.

Plus the tail flukes are horizontal (rather than vertical as for sharks) which made me suspect.

Still - cool shot though.

It's still a cool shot If I was that surfer I would assume it was a shark and freak out and try and get the heck away..! Don't think I would be calm enough to sit and work out if its a shark or not, lol.

Happened to me once in Byron Bay. My abiding memory is that my mate was between me and the "shark" so would have been eaten first!

[dizzyblonde]

My dad was swimming in the Red Sea at Jeddah IIRC, and his mate started shouting and waving for him to get out of the water, he was histerical..my dad looked behind him and saw a whole load of fins

..,he was pleasantly surprised when he realised a whole family of dolphins had come to inspect his swimming