On July 13th, two basking sharks survived a harrowing close-encounter with not one, but two humans! The sharks involved were simply out for a swim near their home off the coast of Cornwall, when they spotted the two humans lurking in the water. While humans are typically much smaller in size than basking sharks, they have become quite adept at killing sharks and other prey items much larger than their own size. When the sharks drew closer to the humans, the smaller beasts suddenly became motionless. Humans have been known to remain motionless when hunting, in order to ambush unsuspecting prey. The humans were also said to be wearing masks of some kind, not unlike the killer humans found in movies such as Friday the 13th, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Halloween.

While not all humans are considered dangerous toward sharks, humans were responsible for the deaths of an estimate of millions of sharks last year. Fortunately, for the two basking sharks, the humans that they encountered were not interested in cutting off their fins and leaving the sharks for dead. Instead, the humans merely took a photograph of one the sharks and allowed them to leave unharmed.