The Danish TV station TV2 has published an incredible Video of a basking shark. Even an expert was surprised by the sighting in the North sea.
Copenhagen - workers on a drilling platform have been discovered in the North sea, a basking shark. A Danish television station TV2 posted Video shows how to use the shark in the blue water, swam in front of in Danish waters the platform Syd Arne, around 240 kilometers West of Esbjerg, therefore.
"I almost fell out of my chair when I saw the Video," said the marine biologist Jens Peder Jeppesen the transmitter. He had never seen a basking shark of this size in the waters of Denmark. According to TV2 he was estimated to have eight meters long. The recording was made, therefore, already on Sunday.
Denmark: basking shark in the North sea sighted expert: "almost fell from the chair" Video
The North sea belongs to the area of distribution of the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus). However, he is not seen there very often. It is the second largest fish in the world after the whale shark, and is usually six to nine feet long. Basking sharks have a huge mouth, with which they filter Plankton from the water. For the people he is harmless. He is, according to the Union for Conservation of nature IUCN as endangered.
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Date Of Update: 06 September 2019, 00:00
