Created: Jul 08, 2025 07:57 AM (Updated: Jul 08, 2025 01:19 PM)<\/p>\n
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A brief video making the rounds in Bermuda appears to show a highly unusual visitor (Image supplied)<\/p>\n
A short video showing a gentle giant of the seas approaching fishermen who sound Bermudian has intrigued shark expert and marine photographer Choy Aming.<\/p>\n
The researcher and contributor to the Bermuda Shark Project is keen to establish where the clip, which likely shows a basking shark cruising past a fishing boat, was filmed.<\/p>\n
The video making the rounds on social media has been widely taken as being shot in Bermuda waters.<\/p>\n
If it was, Mr Aming said, it would it would mark a first recorded confirmation of a basking shark, which is the second biggest fish in the sea, foraying into the waters around Bermuda.<\/p>\n
\u201cA couple of us were looking at the water in the video and the bait fish, and it does not appear to be local,\u201d he said. \u201cThat bait would be unusual to acquire here, although I wouldn\u2019t rule it out. They definitely sound local.<\/p>\n
\u201cNormally you would be able to track it down, so there\u2019s a bit of doubt on its authenticity at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many viewers online took the shark to be a great white, which is an occasional visitor to Bermuda, but Mr Aming said the size of the fish was a giveaway.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt definitely appears to be a basking shark, and a juvenile,\u201d he said. \u201cThey grow to 30ft. If it is, and if it\u2019s Bermuda, that\u2019s the first ever recorded here, which is why we\u2019re interested in the video.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat would be a significant thing, so I would love to find out if somebody can confirm it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Basking sharks are second only to whale sharks in size, and are typically seen in temperate waters.<\/p>\n
The slow-moving sharks are filter feeders, subsisting on plankton, and are neither aggressive nor pose a threat to humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Created: Jul 08, 2025 07:57 AM (Updated: Jul 08, 2025 01:19 PM) A brief video making the rounds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[6481,24230,70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-248421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-fishing","9":"tag-oceans","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114818537465736544","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}