Even 7 feet doesn't sound right. That EDB only looks about 5 feet to me. Maybe a bit longer. The perspective is terrible though, makes it really hard to gauge. If it's any longer than that, it's quite a long pole. Also, considering how heavy a 7 foot EDB would be, it'd be pretty hard to get enough leverage to hold that pole up if it was just one person with a 20' pool cleaning pole or something like that. Shame on whatever news station those are from for using such misleading photographs.