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People 'blown away' as giant sharks seen leaping out the water off UK coastlines

Researchers from the University of Exeter deployed satellite tags on sharks in the Hebridean Sea, recording 67 breaches over 41 days and revealing new insights into the speed and frequency of this behavior.
Hundreds of basking sharks have been spotted breaching off Ireland, a phenomenon recently trending on TikTok that observers describe as 'nature at its most raw and powerful.'
The University team found sharks can breach as often as six times a day; one individual performed four breaches in 47 seconds, illustrating rapid succession behavior.
BaskingSharksScotland research challenges the parasite theory, noting that 'basking sharks are often sighted with parasitic lampreys, but research we contributed to discovered that parasites were not dislodged during breaching.'
Breaching behavior occurs throughout the Irish Sea and off the coast of Scotland, with recent sightings near Roundstone, Connemara, demonstrating these events take place close to home.

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