Identifiying an object in the water google maps...

[DarkThinker]

I am just curious about what that thing in the water is, any ideas?
Link

 

[ElFenix]

sunken boat?

edit: probably a ghost from the way pictures are done on google maps. see this slip across the river

 

[DarkThinker]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
sunken boat?

Thought about that, but if that is the case then why is it still there?

 

[Vich]

a floating boat

 

[Jeeebus]

Jimmy Hoffa

 

[krunchykrome]

Looks like a car

 

[kevnich2]

Looks like a sunken truck?

 

[pontifex]

looks like maybe a truck or boat. more likely boat because when you compare the size of that thing to the cars on the road, its too big.

could just be some kind of reflection or something too.

Sunken plane? lol

 

[BoomerD]

looks more like a vehicle...oops!

 

[2Xtreme21]

We can always get the number of one of the business on that street and tell them to look out their window...

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Looks like a PU truck

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
sunken boat?

edit: probably a ghost from the way pictures are done on google maps. see this slip across the river

Doesn't look like it's underwater to me...

 

[gwrober]

Originally posted by: kevnich2
Looks like a sunken truck?

EDIT - good point pontifex...

 

[ahurtt]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
sunken boat?

edit: probably a ghost from the way pictures are done on google maps. see this slip across the river

It's a boat. A floating one. See the link above? There is also a boat docked next to the pier in that picture and it also has the same "sunken" or "ghostly" appearance. I think it just looks that way because of some photographic anomoly.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Ghost cars!

 

[DarkThinker]

Originally posted by: ahurtt

Originally posted by: ElFenix
sunken boat?

edit: probably a ghost from the way pictures are done on google maps. see this slip across the river

It's a boat. A floating one. See the link above? There is also a boat docked next to the pier in that picture and it also has the same "sunken" or "ghostly" appearance.

Most probably that is the case, I guess...

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Looks like a car

some mafia peoples got rid of someone, knocked them out and drove them off the pier in their car, it was an "accident"

 

[Kaido]

I think that happens sometimes when an object is moving and the satellite tries to capture it. I seem to recall seeing the same "ghost" effect on cars and airplanes in other areas on Google Maps.

 

[pontifex]

Sunken plane? lol

 

[ahurtt]

Originally posted by: DarkThinker

Originally posted by: ahurtt

Originally posted by: ElFenix
sunken boat?

edit: probably a ghost from the way pictures are done on google maps. see this slip across the river

It's a boat. A floating one. See the link above? There is also a boat docked next to the pier in that picture and it also has the same "sunken" or "ghostly" appearance.

Most probably that is the case, I guess...

It could be the way the sunlight reflects off the water, water vapor, or a combination of the light being distorted by the water vapor or something that gives it that ghostly appearance.

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: ahurtt

Originally posted by: ElFenix
sunken boat?

edit: probably a ghost from the way pictures are done on google maps. see this slip across the river

It's a boat. A floating one. See the link above? There is also a boat docked next to the pier in that picture and it also has the same "sunken" or "ghostly" appearance. I think it just looks that way because of some photographic anomoly.

It's due to the merge of different photos sets. Look at the boat heading towards the Brooklyn Bridge, the bow has the same discolouration.

 

[DarkThinker]

Originally posted by: pontifex
Sunken plane? lol

Hehe...no, skeleton of an albatros

 

[lytalbayre]

My vote goes to a old flat bed diesel truck (sunken of course). That would account for it's size and it's general shape.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: ahurtt

Originally posted by: ElFenix
sunken boat?

edit: probably a ghost from the way pictures are done on google maps. see this slip across the river

It's a boat. A floating one. See the link above? There is also a boat docked next to the pier in that picture and it also has the same "sunken" or "ghostly" appearance. I think it just looks that way because of some photographic anomoly.

umm... that's what i said in my edit...

 

[Fritzo]

My CSI image enhancer shows it's a boat.