Nov 06 2025
Plastic found in stranded Basking Sharks Stomach You might have seen all the media today around plastic found in the stranded basking sharks stomach. A good time to highlight the issue of plastics and microplastics …
Nov 03 2025
Exclusive for World Basking Shark Day! It’s great to share some of our footage from the 2025 season on world basking shark day. After so many years, the sharks still have some surprises for us! …
Jul 29 2025
Basking Sharks in Big Numbers in the Hebrides Great news in our season has started with a big bang with fantastic basking shark sightings around the islands. Our first shark week tour of the year …
Dec 19 2024
It was great to receive a new marine life guide in the mail this week, just before Christmas! Our friend Lawson Wood’s has written this new guide, Marine life of the North Sea and …
Dec 11 2024
One of the top searched questions about our favourite filter feeders is – ‘can a basking shark eat a human?’. We will quickly put your mind at ease and tell you the answer is no, …
One of the biggest mysteries with basking sharks is reproduction – where and how do they breed? Where are their pupping grounds? There are many unanswered questions but we’re now seeing small pieces of the …
As our name suggests, basking sharks live here in Scotland – but this isn’t the only place they’re found, and we’re just one stop in their journey. Basking Sharks can be found almost worldwide at …
Dec 05 2024
Great news this week. Basking sharks have made it into the new book, Ultimate Dive Sites by Todd Thimios. Due to be released in Jan 2025, Todd has scoured the globe for 50 of the …
Jan 02 2024
What do basking sharks eat? Basking sharks eat a type of zooplankton which are small crustaceans called copepods. Generally there are two main species Calanus finmarchicus & Calanus helgolandicus. In the vast and mysterious realms …
Do basking sharks sleep!? On our recent social post, a lot of people suggested the answer was that the shark was sleeping. Look below and see what you think? So firstly, the answer to the …
Nov 02 2023
That’s not a headline you were expecting to read I bet! One of our longer term scientific projects is looking at fish piloting with basking sharks. Our records have dated back to 2013 where a …
Sep 29 2023
Basking sharks generally don’t stay in our waters all year round and migrate off to the sub-tropics during winter. Read more about that here in our other blog, where do basking sharks go in the winter! …
