der!d!der!d!der!d!d!d!

[fish fingers]

jaws theme music something like that any way fished the pier 2day loads of codlings& coalies good banter and then jaws suddenly appeared huge basking shark on the top of the water swam from the end to the 1st gate marvelous for all the kids to see mind someone said it was a sturgeon or thresher shark lovely sight to see.

[phill_itofish]

nice one

[SnaggedUpLad]

thats class, wish i seen it!

[mickbrennan]

Was fishing the mull and 1 swam past about 5 feet away just gliding through the water lovely to see

[waco]

thats class, wish i seen it!

aye mate it was an utterly fantastic sight,have heard of sharks a few mile off when lads have have been boat fishing , but never expected to see a shark off shields pier never mind one swmming a few yards off pier wall
towards the shore,, even though it was mainly small stuff getting caught and lots of it, it well worth going fishing yesterday, again afantastiic sight

[Stewart 1971]

Jaws

That might explain wht I found a body-board washed up on Horden beach last night

[batt22]

Do you get any basking sharks off the northeast coast ? if it was a thresher shark they are man-eaters close the beaches chief, norman get a bigger boat

[wavy davy]

What pier was it off?

[gary2010]

was at south shields pier in the harbour there was 2 of them i think unless the was 1 of them thresher sharks with its tail sticking up behind it. if it was just the 1 shark it must of been a canny size. they swam past the small wall where they got spotted then they were hanging about the steps in the wheel my mate has a few pics and videos of the shark.

[bigtel]

what

no one take any pics.

[gary2010]

no one take any pics.

my mate has some pics il get them sent off him tomorrow and get them put on here if no 1 else gets any on

[Eddie H]

A common sight on the west coast in the Gulf Stream, occasional visitors to the North Sea.
Basking Sharks are pretty lonely characters.
Their tail fin is nearly as bulky looking as their dorsal fin. Average 20 - 25 feet long. May have looked like two, but probably one.

Whilst anchored in the Ascension Island a Whale Shark swam under us. Now thats one H U G E fish. An enormous black mass with white spots.

Excellent spotting, beats the usual Sea Gull !

Eddie