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
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! …
Aug 27 2018
Juvenile Basking Shark We have some really exciting news in that one of our recent tours spotted our first-ever sighting of a juvenile basking shark. We believe this could be one of the only records …
