25 ft sharks off the Channel Islands

[TheLastWord]

"You're gonna need a bigger boat"

https://news.yahoo.com/pair-25-foot-basking-sharks-132620041.html

 

[RoadDukie]

Lived off the Calif coast during the 60's/70's with a great ocean vue..did a LOT of sailing too. Had no idea that there were Basking Sharks out there.

Saw a lot of blue sharks. Also didn't realize at the time that there were a lot of Blue Whales out there too.
Great story.

 

[wpod]

I would imagine the La Nina is warming up the water.

 

[stormgol]

it is a very placid shark species. it has the smallest brain relative to it's size of all the sharks.

 

[RoadDukie]

I would imagine the La Nina is warming up the water.

Aren't we in El Nino now?

 

[wpod]

Aren't we in El Nino now?

Yes we are that is why the ocean currents are warming the water.

 

[vavavroom]

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"You're gonna need a bigger boat"

https://news.yahoo.com/pair-25-foot-basking-sharks-132620041.html

I already told @Shel_B about the bigger boat. I think he will brave the Red Triangle, which is teeming with great whites.

 

[Lubener]

I would imagine the La Nina is warming up the water.

You mean El Nino is warming up the water.

 

[thunderfog]

The direct effect of El Nino on warming ocean water is in the equatorial Pacific, not off SoCal. Linking El Nino to warming waters off California would contain a multitude of steps in between to make that conclusion (but still a possibility). That said, ocean water temperatures are just warmer to begin on the whole with as global temps increase.