I've never seen one before and I never would of thought we would encounter one off the N. Yorkshire coast. The first mate spotted it first and shouted out. I didn't believe it but jumped out my seat and ran out to the back deck to take a look.
There it was by the side of our vessel, around 4 m long a feeding basking shark! What an amazing thing to see it feeding and relaxed alongside our boat. We floated there and watched it slowly swimming through the water.
The encounter was uploaded to the Shark Trust Basking Shark Project. To help keep track and monitor the populations of these threatened yet beautiful animals we are luckly to encounter around the UK coastline.
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