Giant Mola (Ocean Sunfish)

[Locutus]

Close encounter: Photojournalist Daniel Botelho came across the moon-shaped Mola mola while snapping pictures of blue whales off San Diego



You never know what you're going to find in an old folder: a long-forgotten Polaroid snapshot, a yellowed love letter, or in the case of a Brazilian underwater photographer, a rare image of a moon-shaped giant fish taken two years prior.

The image depicting the slow-moving, otherworldly Mola mola, or sunfish, was captured off San Diego by Daniel Botelho, and it became an instant hit after being posted last week on his Facebook page.

‘It got 1,000 'likes' in 36 hours,’ Botelho, an award-winning photojournalist who specializes in underwater photography, told GrindTV.

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[spaminator]

holey mola!

 

[bill barilko]

Lots of those off WCVI-all kinds.

 

[shadowshiv]

I think I probably would have pooped in my diving suit had that creature suddenly appeared next to me!8O

 

[bill barilko]

I think I probably would have pooped in my diving suit had that creature suddenly appeared next to me!

You have to be many miles offshore to see one.

Believe it or not they can jump too-if you're offshore and see a splash like a Volkswagen bug just dropped from the sky that's a Sunfish.

Hawaiians believe it's Bad Luck to kill/eat one and in fact a huge animal like that only yields a few KGs of (barely) edible meat

 

[SLM]

I think I probably would have pooped in my diving suit had that creature suddenly appeared next to me!8O

Yes, well "big", "ugly", and "sudden" are often conducive to a good bowel movement. LOL.

 

[spaminator]

I think I probably would have pooped in my diving suit had that creature suddenly appeared next to me!8O

what would be even worse is if it thought your cock was a new tasty fish. 8O