Oceanic transform fault earthquakes exhibit some interesting and apparently contradictory properties. A number of earthquakes on oceanic transforms have been identified as slow on the basis of their weak seismic radiation at high frequencies. On the other hand, transform fault events as a population have been found to have high apparent stress, indicating strong high-frequency radiation since the seismic energy is concentrated at and above the corner frequency. In an attempt to reconcile these observations, we analyze seventy 5.8 ≤ Mw ≤ 8.3, strike-slip earthquakes from around the world. Four of these earthquakes have both exceptionally low apparent stress and large centroid time shifts for their seismic moment. All four of them are located on oceanic transform faults. If we include these events in the population, we find that continental and oceanic strike-slip earthquakes are not significantly different in their mean apparent stress but that there is greater variation for oceanic events. We also find that in contrast to the low correlation between centroid time shift and apparent stress for continental earthquakes, the oceanic ridge transform earthquakes have a high correlation between these two parameters. We also observe cases of both ordinary and slow earthquakes on adjacent sections of the same transform. These characteristics suggest significant differences in the faulting process between oceanic transforms and continental faults.