Whale sharks can get really, really big. It’s a size so large it’s difficult to describe to someone who hasn’t been in the water with one. It’s not a feeling that’s easy to put into words–palpable displacement might work, but still, that’s not quite it.
When Brittany Brock was diving off the coast of West Palm Beach, Florida, she happened to encounter a whale shark so big that other whale sharks said, “shit, that’s a big whale shark.” It was so covered in cobias and remoras that Brock said it resembled a “rolling cloud.”
According to GrindTV, the whale shark measured around 35 feet. The longest whale shark ever measured came in at 40 feet, while the average one comes in between 18 and 3o feet. Brock, her husband Keith, her cousin Addie, and their guide Craig were all in the water to experience it.
“I heard my husband yelling over his regulator and looked up to see a what looked like a rolling cloud,” she said to GrindTV. “There were cobia and remoras everywhere – then I realized they were attached to something, and that something was a whale shark!”
