Marlin bill penetrates crude oil hose

[gofishin]

Did a quick search & couldn’t find a previous thread with these pics - what an amazing sight! :o These are pictures of a floating crude load hose off Angola, Africa, that was pierced by a blue (?) marlin. Load operations were shut down for a few days while they replaced the hose, and this terminal produces about 250k barrels of oil a day.

The bill looks a bit broad for a blue, but it has been a long while since I have caught either ;D . Note the thickness of the hose – that is some penetrating force for the bill to go that deep into the hose.
cheers

[comfortably numb]

Wow! wonder what it was doing

[gofishin]

Wow! wonder what it was doingI would say the hose would act like a big FAD & the marlin was chasing bait just a bit too close & had a slight misjudgement :-[ . Otherwise maybe aggression???

I once caught a blue that had a fresh 12cm bill impaled deep in its shoulder. The bill formerly belonged to a juvenile broadbill swordfish, and had broken off at its base. The broadbill must have been all of 30cm long at a guess, but had taken on an 90kg blue – now that’s aggression!

[thelump]

A mate of mine sent this to me the other day. The question I had for him was why the main shot with the fish in it shows the bill going through a section of the pipe that is black and the close up shots of the bill in the pipe show it in a red/orange section:-/ :-/

[Pazz01]

I agree with Lump here. Looks like a bit of photo shop? That line that is in the 1st photo looks a bit weird to me.

Pazz

[Reefmaster]

A mate of mine sent this to me the other day. The question I had for him was why the main shot with the fish in it shows the bill going through a section of the pipe that is black and the close up shots of the bill in the pipe show it in a red/orange section:-/ :-/

Yeah mate looks like a seperate incident from the first pic to the others....The orange stripe on the pipe looks to extremely wide on the first pic as well compared to the others...

Greg

[Is Don Is GOOD]

somethin goin on. but still impressive if it were correct..

Don

[supertinny]

"Simpsons did it"

http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/showthread.php?t=161445

[supertinny]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4160D7FAVE





Have you seen the doco on Discovery or Nat G where a billfish attacks a underwater reserch sub.
Its bill penertrates the hull.

[supertinny]

A quick search of the interweb shows that an oil pipeline has indeed been damaged by a swordfish. This is not the first time it has happened.

http://in.reuters.com/article/idINLDE6111A220100202

I believe the first photo shows the fish relating to the article and the following photos are of previous pipeline mishaps.

The internet - get into it.

[Bros]

I was listening to a person being interviewed on the ABC radio recently and he said it was common for the old sailing ships to have marlin bills in the wood hull. It was suspected it was caused by marlin chasing a feed and never stopped in time.
He also said it didn't seem to worry the marlin as they survived with their bill broken off.

[PumpyChowdown]

The first pic is definitely Photoshop. The "pipeline" in pic 1 actually looks like a fishing rod, and the "hose" or whatever is just fishing line.

All in all these pics seem a bit fishy (hur hur) to me.

[trueblue]

The first pic is definitely Photoshop. The "pipeline" in pic 1 actually looks like a fishing rod, and the "hose" or whatever is just fishing line.

All in all these pics seem a bit fishy (hur hur) to me.

Obviously you are welcome to your opinion, but I must say that the oil transfer hose looks very real, and the hose / rope (it is plausible to be either) hanging in he air also looks very real, exactly what it would look like if you were standing on the bow of an FPSO oil tanker ship.

bottom right hand side of the first photo shows a flanged connection in the transfer hose, and the transfer hose has barnacles / marine growth where it lays in the water normally. doesn't look anything like a fishing rod - looks like an oil transfer hose...........

cheers

Mick

[gofishin]

Yeah mate looks like a seperate incident from the first pic to the others....The orange stripe on the pipe looks to extremely wide on the first pic as well compared to the others...

Greg


"Simpsons did it"

http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/showthread.php?t=161445


A quick search of the interweb shows that an oil pipeline has indeed been damaged by a swordfish. This is not the first time it has happened.

http://in.reuters.com/article/idINLDE6111A220100202

I believe the first photo shows the fish relating to the article and the following photos are of previous pipeline mishaps.

The internet - get into it. Yeah guys, good spotting. Definitely shots from two different incidents, but both from the result of a 'marlin V oil transfer hose' contest. I think that's called journalistic licence...

Supertinny, sorry mate didn't find your thread as i didn't search for 'stuck fish', but i suppose you are right, it is a fish & it is stuck;D. PS nice vid. That broadbill just wanted to be stuck, can't believe it swam right back into it.


Obviously you are welcome to your opinion, but I must say that the oil transfer hose looks very real, and the hose / rope (it is plausible to be either) hanging in he air also looks very real, exactly what it would look like if you were standing on the bow of an FPSO oil tanker ship.

bottom right hand side of the first photo shows a flanged connection in the transfer hose, and the transfer hose has barnacles / marine growth where it lays in the water normally. doesn't look anything like a fishing rod - looks like an oil transfer hose...........

cheers

Mick spot on Mick, no photoshop here

[MackerelMan]

Looks like two genuine but possibly seperate incidents to me. Both also look like broadbills and not marlin.

[supertinny]

No worries gofishin.
There is an awesome PBS doco called "Superfish" It shows a billfish stuck in a research sub.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE81KrN_ahY

[jeffo]

Mackeral man- the fish stuck in the pipe is deffinately a marlin not a broady.

The bill through the pipe is also a marlins, although there is one photo that makes it look like a broady bill.

[MackerelMan]

Mackeral man- the fish stuck in the pipe is deffinately a marlin not a broady.

The bill through the pipe is also a marlins, although there is one photo that makes it look like a broady bill.

Happy to stand corrected Jeffo. Pretty impressive either way.

[Sarge06]

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