Deep Sea Footage on Instagram: "The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second-largest fish in the world, after the whale shark, and can grow up to 12 meters (40 feet) long and weigh over 5 tons. Found in temperate oceans worldwide, it’s a filter feeder, swimming with its enormous mouth open to capture plankton, small fish, and invertebrates. Inside its mouth are hundreds of tiny gill rakers that strain food from the water. Despite their size, basking sharks are slow swimmers, usually crui