For those who know the crystal clear waters of Laguna Beachthat December 2 was not another afternoon for Rich German, who has been practicing the sport of paddle surfing on the California coast every day for 12 years.
German saw hundreds of dolphins, whales and endless fish different at sea. However, that day a giant creature never seen before swam under his table. It was an oddly large sunfish, as if it were “half a mutilated shark.”
“My friend and I were blown away when we saw this,” German told McClatchy News, according to el Nuevo Herald. The news, which took place in 2021, has gone viral again in the last few hours.
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“First of all, they are very rare creatures, and the one we saw was gigantic, floating on the surface basking in the sun,” he added.
Rich German and Matt Wheaton were rowing when they came across one huge sunfish.
They were enjoying Laguna Beach, California when they made the strange discovery. A giant fish like “half-mutilated shark” and which could break the world record.
German said: “Me and my friend Matt were paddling and found it…it was hard to miss! He was between nine and ten feet (about three meters) long, much bigger than me.”
“It’s hard to compare a sunfish to other creatures because they look so weird, they look like a mutilated shark that’s been bitten in half. I’ve seen many over the years, but this was definitely the biggest,” said German.
The world’s largest bony fish by weight was another sunfish caught in 1996 off Kamogawa, a city in Chiba, Japan, says Guinness World Records.
It weighed 2,300 kilograms and was 8 feet 11 inches (2.71 meters) long, and although the two men did not measure the fish they found, they are sure it was larger.
“Well, we didn’t get that and we didn’t have a tape measure, but the largest sunfish on record is 8 foot 11,” said Rich, 52. “Matt’s board is 14 feet long,” he added, “and if you look at the photos you can see for yourself how big it looks.”
Julianne Steers of the Beach Ecology Coalition said there was only one way to tell for sure whether it was a record-breaking specimen. “The only real way to know is if you were out [del agua] what if it was officially weighed and measured,” he told the OC Registry.
“But it looks much bigger than what we normally see here,” he concluded.
Source: Clarin
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