What are basking sharks? They’re giant sharks with tiny teeth, and they’re completely harmless.
Ryan Lawler saw the dorsal fin in the distance, swaying slowly side to side, and assumed it was a great white shark. As his boat got closer, he saw the massive fish’s snout sticking out of the water, its mouth wide open.“It was something we’d been dreaming about,” Lawler said. The owner of Pacific Offshore Expeditions had heard of basking sharks showing up recently along the Channel Islands and gone in search of one, as a kind of marine life bucket list item.
Scientists know so little about the sharks that they find it difficult to explain why they apparently have returned — and whether they might stick around. Dan Salas, chief executive and founder of Harbor Breeze Cruises in Long Beach, said passengers have seen seven or eight basking sharks on their excursions since the beginning of the year. Salas said he has seen five in his lifetime — and three of those were this year.
Though scientists agree that the return of the basking shark may have something to do with environmental factors, they hesitate to draw conclusions because there is so little baseline information about the species.The problem, Dewar said, is that scientists don’t know how the animals behave even in normal conditions. And recent changes in the climate have only complicated matters.
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