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So this scavenger comes in, which is a giant sixgill shark.
That's a 12-foot-long giant sixgill shark.
No one's ever done it without a shark cage.
And so I started that swim in a bathing suit like normal, and, no joke, this is it; it came from the shark divers.
A third of the basking shark's size is their liver, and it's full of oil, gallons of oil.
Probably the best-documented basking shark fishery in the world is that from Achill Island.
Sharks used to come into the bay, and the fishermen would tie a net off the headland, string it out, an old Manila net, and as the shark came round, it would hit the net, the net would collapse on it.
You can't really see, but these are Norwegian basking shark hunting vessels.
The black line in the crow's nest signifies this is a shark vessel, rather than a whaling vessel.
You go up in your boat and tag the shark.
We use a pole camera on the boat to actually film the shark.
One, it's to try and work out the gender of the shark.
And sharks and fish are underwater most of the time, so this tag actually works out the locations of shark, depending on the timing and the setting of the sun, plus water temperature and depth.
Here's one we haven't ground-truthed yet with sea-surface temperature and water depth, but again, the second shark spent most of its time in and around the Irish Sea.
Colleagues from the Isle of Man last year actually tagged one shark that went from the Isle of Man to Nova Scotia in about 90 days.
If you look at the first line, really, you can see that all these different shark species are all quite similar.
But if you look at nucleotide diversity, which is more genetics that are passed on through the parents, you see that basking sharks, if you look at the first study, was order of magnitude less diverse even than other shark species.
And yet, if you look at the whale shark, which is the other plankton-eating large shark, its diversity is much greater.
On one occasion, when we were up in Malin Head in Donegal, the shark smacked the side of the boat with his tail, more, I think, in startle to the fact that a boat came near it, rather than the tag going in.
I used to spend a lot of time on commercial fishing boats, and I remember fishermen saying they can tell when a basking shark has been caught in a net, because it leaves a black slime behind.
So that must have come from the shark.
All it was doing was breaking my arrows, because the shark's skin is just so strong.
They amplified it and they tested it, and they found, yes, this was actually basking shark DNA, which was got from the slime.
Look at that lovely black shark slime.
What you're trying to look at is, the males have claspers, which kind of dangle out behind the back of the shark.
So you can quite easily tell the gender of the shark.
If we can tell the gender of the shark before we sample it, we can tell the geneticist this was taken from a male or a female.
Being able to tell the gender of a shark is very important for things like policing the trade in basking shark and other species through the sightings, because it is illegal to trade in these sharks.
This is a location in the Pacific where white shark converge.
And most of the catch of the high seas is sold as upscale food items, like tuna sashimi or shark fin soup.
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