Basking Shark caught off Algeria

Video uploaded by mizrana1000 on 28. December 2012 :

The footage shows a basking shark (reported to be 1600 kg in weight) in Tigzirt, a small town on the coast of northeast Algeria in Tizi Ouzou Province.

More information on this basker and other shark specimens in our forthcoming post on noteworthy recent shark records from the European and Mediterranean Region.