9-metre-long shark washes up on Maine beach

A large basking shark, measuring around nine metres, washed ashore in Lubec, Maine, yesterday (September 2) at 5am.

Despite the efforts of ten locals, who spent several hours gathering water in buckets and pouring it over the shark’s gills in an attempt to keep it alive, the animal later died.

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