Already a couple of years ago, but the moment that I saw a Sunfish is still with me!.

This giant fish was swimming to me @ the dive spot "ship place" (Aqaba, jordan).  With his mouth open, swimming from the deep to me (arround 30M /100 feet), It was beautifull. A

 sunfish have been observed up to 3.3 m (11 ft) in length and weighing up to 2,300 kg (5,100 lb). The version I saw was arround 1.5 till 2.00 in lenght.

Ocean sunfish is generally thought to be solitary fish, swimming freely in the ocean alone. However, certain sightings of molas in groups of more than ten have been reported. Frequently, giant sunfishes lie inert on the ocean surface, apparently sunning themselves.

Curiously, the Ocean Sunfish has a very small brain compared to its size: A 200 kg specimen may have a brain the size of a nut weighing only 4 g. It would explain their quiet behaviour and how often they get trapped into fisher nets.

According to the National Geographic if it lives to adulthood, a sunfish can gain over 60 million times its starting weight: "the equivalent of a healthy, bouncing human baby growing to a weight equal to six Titanics" ;)

The next video of scuba divers next to a giant sunfish gives you a better idea of their size.

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