Scientists from Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, who took to the waters off East Boston, Massachusettssets, to tag some basking sharks, are the lucky group that spotted this scene ...

A whale-watching tour off Southern California got a close-up look at a passing basking shark ... “Like whale sharks and unlike white sharks, these gentle giants filter feed on dense clumps ...

They use more than 5,000 gill rakers to strain 25 kg of plankton from around 1.5 million litres of water per hour which is around the size of a swimming pool Basking sharks are found across the globe.