Watch: Basking sharks swim under kayak in ‘surreal’ experience off Cork coast

#We had heard about recent basking shark sightings along the coast and we were hoping to catch a glimpse of a fin. I wasn’t expecting to come nose-to-nose with one.'

A screengrab of the two kayakers' basking shark encounter on Tuesday. Picture: Louise Barker/ Twitter

Two kayakers had a “surreal” encounter with basking sharks off the coast of west Cork in Ireland, with the sharks swimming right under their kayaks.

Louise Barker, 33, captured the encounter on video, which she shared to Twitter with the caption: “Had a little bump from a curious basking shark off the west Cork coast yesterday.