Today's Wikipedia main article: The Ocean Sunfish

Valiente · #1 (**permalink**) 04-24-2008

I saw this just now.

Ocean sunfish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Very interesting beast, and I think I'll give swordfish a miss from now on.

By the way, the Portuguese call this peixe lua, which means "moon fish". Typical!

(And yes, Alex, I know the aquarium at Lisbon has one in a big tank, but I didn't have time to see every tourist attraction in your country's capital!)

Anyone see this things lying at the surface, catching a few rays? (Or jellyfish?) Apparently, they can be mistaken for sharks, but they move in a different and easily recognized fashion.

artbyjody · #2 (**permalink**) 04-25-2008

I am not quite seeing how it can be confused for a shark... but it does have a full keel - and looks a bit like a Catalina...

just me tho maybe...

Valiente · #3 (**permalink**) 04-25-2008

Well, a Shark is a Hunter, when it isn't a Hinterhoeller. (Warning: the preceding joke may be too obscure even for Sailnet.)

Rockter · #4 (**permalink**) 04-26-2008

Deep fin keel, surely?

Valiente · #5 (**permalink**) 04-27-2008

It needs a torpedo bulb on it.

Giulietta · #6 (**permalink**) 04-27-2008

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Originally Posted by Valiente

Well, a Shark is a Hunter, when it isn't a Hinterhoeller. (Warning: the preceding joke may be too obscure even for Sailnet.)

Ahh I got that joke...you damn teeter-totter

Giulietta · #7 (**permalink**) 04-27-2008

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Originally Posted by Valiente

It needs a torpedo bulb on it.

DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By the way..that one is actually the one in Lisbon..we have 3 of them...and I saw it less than a month ago when I took the the kid from Hell and Fred to see the fish...they are BIG AS A BOAT ....

Valiente · #8 (**permalink**) 04-28-2008

Luis looks more like you every day, you know that, right?

tdw · #9 (**permalink**) 04-28-2008

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Originally Posted by Valiente

Luis looks more like you every day, you know that, right?

Poor kid

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Hey , those sunfish are quite common off the NSW coast and have been known to play merry hell with the racers in the Syd-Hob when they run into one.

ps - Why ????

Very interesting beast, and I think I'll give swordfish a miss from now on.

(Not that I am disagreeing with you ref eating Swordfish but what has that got to do with Sunfish ?)

Hartley18 · #10 (**permalink**) 04-28-2008

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Hey , those sunfish are quite common off the NSW coast and have been known to play merry hell with the racers in the Syd-Hob when they run into one.
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Now there's an under-statement. Mobile speed-humps... the marine version of wombats!!

Those things could take the swing-keel off a fancy pocket-maxi before you even think to yell "shark!".