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They spotted three basking sharks during the whale watch. “One swam gracefully alongside us, passing right under the bow with its massive mouth wide open, filtering plankton from the water.

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On a surprise bachelorette cruise and whale watch around the Isle of Shoals, the group spotted two basking sharks.

Basking sharks can grow to 40 to 50 feet long and weigh up to 10,000 pounds, Dodd said in an interview. Filter feeders, they eat plankton and are normally found in the open ocean, Dodd said.

Similar to the second-largest shark, the basking shark, whale sharks filter plankton out of the ocean water. These filter feeders will swim many miles in a single day searching for plankton.

The largest shark to ever live was likely the mighty megalodon ( Otodus megalodon ), which swam in prehistoric oceans from 23 to 3.6 million years ago and is now definitely extinct. Paleontologists ...