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Story summary
- A scientist off the Isle of Man tagged a 10-tonne basking shark.
- The narrator steered an inflatable rib-craft to position the boat for the tagging.
- Sightings fell from 885 in 2009 to a single shark in 2022.
- Researchers suggested food shortage, warming seas, and cable-generated electromagnetic fields as possible causes.
- In summer 2026, over 100 sharks appeared near the island’s southwest coast, linked by officials to a copepod bloom.
