VIDEO: Irish research team find basking sharks can jump as high and as fast as great whites

Common in Irish and British waters, the second-largest fish in the world are not as slow and cumbersome as had previously been thought.

A collaborative team of marine biologists has discovered that basking sharks, found often off the coast of Ireland, can jump as fast and as high out of the water as the great white sharks.

Video credit: Bren Whelan & Queen's University Belfast.