Basking Sharks Winter Hideouts – Tropical Waters
Basking Sharks Hiding Places Found – Tropical Waters
Basking Sharks, and we will soon unearth more details about them. For ages, researchers kept wondering as to where the basking sharks went during winter. After long research they have the answer to this now; with loads of mind baffling surprises.
While marine biologists believed that the basking sharks had to spend their time in cool almost freezing waters during winter, they now found that the second largest fish in the world swam from New England in the western Atlantic to as far as Bahamas passing through the equator to South America. According to lead researcher and marine biologist with Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Greg Skomal, ‘this is equivalent to finding polar bears in Kansas.’ According to the team half the year the basking sharks go elsewhere to tide away the cooler waters. Skomal remarked that surprised to receive signal from tagged sharks coming from the tropical waters of the western Atlantic, in the vicinity of the Caribbean and Bahamas. After all, basking sharks were always believed to be cool-water sharks, restricted to temperate regions.
The basking sharks measure as big as 35 feet and longer, but have their habitats in the temperate waters of the world. Surprisingly no one ever studied the newborn pups; still surprising, no one ever seen a pregnant shark and no one ever knew where a female shark delivers its pups and until recently not much was known about where the basking sharks spent most of their time, especially during the cooler months.
