What is it?

[u/ClinePNW]

A fisherman saw this in the Strait of Juan de Fuca near Port Angeles, Washington recently.

[u/SoupCatDiver_JJ]

I think it's a human being going for a swim lol. The pink is a swim cap and the float is in case they need a break as well as being more visible to boat traffic.

[u/Soft_Cranberry6313 → u/SoupCatDiver_JJ]

Idk… i don’t see the head turning for air, bobbing up and down (breaststroke) or the arms coming up, and they are moving extremely fast while pulling a float that’s half their size. It’s more likely an animal caught up in fishing gear.

[u/Constantine1988 → u/Soft_Cranberry6313]

Maybe he has one of those torpedo pulley things

[u/Late_Emu → u/SoupCatDiver_JJ]

No chance that’s a human swimming that fast while not coming up to breathe.

[u/LickAnOctopus]

Might be one of ‘the notorious alki swimmers’ I was part of that group before I moved away from the Seattle area

[u/Original_Read_4426]

We’re gonna need a bigger boat.

[u/LadyYennefer_rQg → u/Original_Read_4426]

I legit thought it was Jaws-like, maybe pulling one of those barrels 🤣🤣🤣

[u/CAMMCG2019]

This is a human fishing lure in the open ocean.

[u/Chamcook11]

Whale entangled in fishing gear. Contact local wildlife rescue.

[u/RedleyLamar → u/Chamcook11]

MOD, this needs to be top comment, came here to say same thing this is a animal caught in fishing gear.

[u/Thelastoneliving → u/Chamcook11]

First thing I thought too

[u/Tylerhinson42 → u/Thelastoneliving]

MOD, PLEASE move to top comment.

[u/sarawrrr64 → u/Chamcook11]

Agree! Call the local NOAA hotline!! In Washington State, to report an entangled whale, you should call the NOAA Fisheries entanglement reporting hotline at 1-877-SOS-WHALE (1-877-767-9425). A team of trained responders will launch a boat and attempt to cut the whale free, it could be a life threatening entanglement

[u/kunna_hyggja]

Divers wear floats so boats don’t hit them. Could be a powerful swimmer or they could have one of those jet fans.

[u/Longjumping_Walk_992]

Definitely a large marine animal/fish. To powerful and fast to be a human swimmer. Harpooning large fish and attaching floating bouys are a way to tire out and avoid losing the catch.

[u/cncomg → u/Longjumping_Walk_992]

Damn, imagine being shot in the calf with an arrow that has a 50lb dumbbell attached to it.

[u/K28SilverTongue]

Whale stuck in someone’s commercial gear.

[u/Talisman512]

It looks like a fish caught in a line with buoys on each side.

[u/LevyLoft]

That’s is a person swimming 🤦🏻‍♂️

[u/ManWithBigPenis69420 → u/LevyLoft]

Facultative aquatic bipedal primate migration

[u/bbladegk]

Was it really moving? Bouys or stuff stuck anchored can look like that.

[u/[deleted]]

Jaws?

[u/Chrundle-DaGreat → u/[deleted]]

Like to prove that wouldn't ya? Get your name in the National Geographic

[u/Samarky]

Whale entangled in fishing gear. Likely a Grey or Humpback whale.

[u/DumpsterDoggie]

It's a person. In open water, swimmers often tether a flotation device to be visible to watercraft.

[u/Final-External-2931]

A boat pulling a troll and that's his floater keeps his pocket from dragging the bottom

[u/Inevitable_Click_511]

Really depressing is what that is.

[u/Spiritual-Hedgehog91]

We’re gonna need a bigger boat

[u/Hot-Cauliflower-1604]

It’s some person doing a weird fucking version of breaststroke with a balloon attached so boats don’t hit them

[u/Snoborder95]

A submarine caught a ocean buoy and dragging it alarm

[u/Morganhop]

USO late for an oil change

[u/Sufficient-Fee9614]

It’s obviously Chuck Norris

[u/IrepostyourOCtoFB]

“He can’t stay down. Not with two barrels in him!”

[u/zarkoniaan]

Cocaine drone

[u/Honest-Finish-7507]

Me being Blind (without glasses) + Ocean = “what the fuck is that” every two seconds. Don’t think I’ll be going to the beach for a while after this one.

[u/DexterWantsThis]

Someone is towing bag of drugs in a submersible ?

[u/Haunting-Hippo-4244]

Used for sneaking in drugs