Thread: Kayaker and great white shark

Originally Posted by MB

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

Baskys get pretty big but wont have a go at you...not sure what their fins look like though as its been a decade or two since I saw my last one and I was not really looking at the fins.....

Originally Posted by timattalon

Baskys get pretty big but wont have a go at you...not sure what their fins look like though as its been a decade or two since I saw my last one and I was not really looking at the fins.....

Height of dorsal vs tail - I looked on the web when we got back and there really isn't much that's configured like that and also has the potential to get that big. As noted, it's either a meg (extinct) or a grandma white that is huge. There's a lot of scuttle about big whites off Northland/Barrier, the commercial fishing boys go on about 'Brutus' which was rumoured to be a white of about that size. Dunno...