Posted: Mar 21, 2011 3:33 PM by NBC News
FLORIDA - A rare treat for sightseers and fishermen in Panama City Beach, Florida last week as a basking shark was spotted off the Bay County Pier. Captain Linda Cavitt was ready with her video camera as a shark swam in close to a kayaker.
The kayaker seen paddling above the shark didn't have anything to worry about. Basking sharks are not dangerous to man, they only eat plankton.
A person who identified himself as the kayaker in this video says the kayak is 14-feet long, so that gives you a perspective on the shark's size.
The basking shark is the second largest shark in the word, behind the whale shark. The largest basking shark ever caught measured over 40-feet in length and weighed an estimated 17 tons. They usually cruise the more temperate waters of the world and are not usually seen off the coast of Florida.
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