It’s World Basking Shark Day! As one of the most unique sharks in the ocean, we want to celebrate basking sharks by sharing some interesting facts about them: Basking sharks are the second largest fish behind whale sharks (weighing more than 8,000 pounds) Basking sharks eat zooplankton by swimming with their large mouths open (large mammals and other fish have nothing to fear from basking sharks) Basking sharks can leap out of the water like Great Whites (this behavior is called breaching) Baski

Lovely to watch and film this Basking Shark feeding in the plankton-rich waters of Mousa Sound this week. Aerial footage by Hugh. | Shetland Wildlife