Basking shark discovery from tagging project

The Save Our Seas Foundation 'Project Basking Shark' has revealed an exciting new discovery: basking sharks are transatlantic wanderers and deep-ocean divers.

At this time of year, each year, a dark triangular fin appears off the British Isles. Slicing through the waters off Cornwall, Isle of Man, Southern Ireland and Scotland's Western Isles. It stirs more than the water it swims through, as a rippling wave of fin-phobia takes hold of the British public, ensued by many hours of speculation over what shark lies beneath. That fin, between one and two metres long, belongs to the world's second largest fish, a shark with a body that grows up to 10 metres and a mouth almost as wide as a piano, the basking shark Cetorhinus maximus.

Little is known about this gentle giant, whose humble diet consists of the microscopic organism plankton, and until now it was thought in Europe to migrate north in the spring to England and up to Scotland, before returning south in the autumn...[Telegraph.co.uk]