This is the story of Walter Maxwell's world-record tiger shark, which he caught not from a boat, or in Australia, but from a ...

The Manatee Fire Marshal says the man bitten on the leg by a shark off Anna Maria Island got into the water from a boat. “People were disappointed that we weren’t clearing the beach,” he said.

However, just because you don’t see a basking shark at any given place & time, doesn’t mean they aren’t there. Basking sharks spend 90% of their time underwater and not at the surface.