1. Snorkel with basking sharks in the Inner Hebrides A gaping mouth, beady eyes and hooked dorsal fin: the prospect of coming face to face with a shark underwater isn’t usually a welcome one.

The basking shark, for instance ... Whenever a shark does rest, its eyes remain open. It's not sleep in the traditional sense of the word. Weird, right? Sharks are completely boneless creatures.

There are many different types of sharks, and they come in a range of sizes, from small to absolutely huge. The basking shark, for instance, is typically 26 feet long and weighs up to seven tons.

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It is a fearsome predator with eyes the size of dinner plates and tentacles equipped ... and their evolutionary history are particularly intriguing. The basking shark, the second-largest fish in the ...

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It has long wings, yellow eyes ... the salmon shark. Marine turtles are giant, aquatic reptiles with large flippers as forelimbs and smaller flippers as hindlimbs that they use for swimming. They ...

According to @fishfactsdaily, there are many sharks that lurk in the depths. First up is the basking shark, which the TikToker gave a danger rating of 2/10. According to The Wildlife Trust ...

On September 1, 1937, there was a triple fatality in the Kilbrannan Sound off Carradale on the Kintyre peninsula when a basking shark capsized a boat containing three people: Captain Angus Brown ...

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