The Cellar / Pop-Ups

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 7/20/2024 12:41 am

Out fishing on a quiet afternoon when suddenly you're soiling yourself.
On the upside they confirm you were fishing where the fish are... were
I think the camera angle make the boat look much closer to them than it was.

I just read last night about two women kayaking getting gobbled up like this
but the whale spit them out in a couple of seconds.
It's probably from an incident a couple years ago.

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 7/20/2024 9:28 pm

They're gonna need a bigger boat...

**Posted by griff** 7/22/2024 6:14 am

I'd definitely wear my brown pants.

**Posted by glatt** 7/22/2024 10:46 am

This image looks a little wonky. Like it got stretched vertically from the original.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 8/10/2024 6:38 pm

That may be from the long lens compressing it, but that's just a guess.

**Posted by glatt** 8/10/2024 7:57 pm

Huh seems to be a dead image link for me now. This was the breaching whale one, right?

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 8/10/2024 8:53 pm

Yup, I can see it???

**Posted by glatt** 8/11/2024 3:24 pm

Huh. and it's back again for me. Go figure.

**Posted by glatt** 8/11/2024 3:35 pm

Alright, this image was nagging at me. So I looked for it.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/whales-feeding-boat-photo/

It's both a photoshopped image and an image that has been stretched in the vertical direction to make the whales appear taller, and the boat stubbier and the standing dude taller.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 8/11/2024 9:58 pm

That would explain why the dude is calmly standing up in his little dingy which would be subject to an M 9.0 shock wave momentarily.
However the two Methvin pictures labeled 2014 and 2015 are not the same picture. They may be the same whales but are in different positions taken from different angles. They might have been taken on the same "roll". The differences can't be Photoshopped away.

Here's the picture I posted with just the vertical axis shrunk 25%