Thread: Kayaker and great white shark

Originally Posted by No.3

Biggest white I've seen was about 20feet from the back of the dorsal to the tip of the tail fin, the dorsal fin was between 750-1000mm out of the water. This was on a Navy boat doing navigation training between the Mokes and Hen and Chicks, heading in to the coast. We were all standing on the deck (basically the whole crew apart from officer on watch and helmsman) looking at this thing sunning itself, no one thought to take a picture. Damn...

That a near 40 foot shark, 12 metres! Could it have been a whale shark? Otherwise you saw a megalodon!