Reply With QuoteWow! wonder what it was doing
Did a quick search & couldn’t find a previous thread with these pics - what an amazing sight!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. Note the thickness of the hose – that is some penetrating force for the bill to go that deep into the hose.
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Wow! wonder what it was doing
I would say the hose would act like a big FAD & the marlin was chasing bait just a bit too close & had a slight misjudgementOriginally Posted by comfortably numb
. 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!
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
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
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...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
Greg
somethin goin on. but still impressive if it were correct..
Don
"Simpsons did it"
http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/sho...d.php?t=161445
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. P.J. O'Rourke
Have you seen the doco on Discovery or Nat G where a billfish attacks a underwater reserch sub.
Its bill penertrates the hull.
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. P.J. O'Rourke
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.
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. P.J. O'Rourke
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.
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...........
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Mick
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
spot on Mick, no photoshop here
Looks like two genuine but possibly seperate incidents to me. Both also look like broadbills and not marlin.
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