Drone footage shows amazing encounter with basking sharks off Co Clare coast

Rare drone footage shows basking sharks engaged in what is thought to be courtship behaviour off the Co Clare coast. The footage, captured last month, shows up to nine sharks circling a rigid inflatable boat piloted by researchers from the Irish Basking Shark Group.
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