Endangered whale shark caught on camera swimming 6 miles off Texas coast

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A Texas man has a pretty impressive fish story after spotting the world’s largest species of shark off the coast earlier this month.

Addison Smith and his fiance Alexus Broome were roughly six miles off the Port Aransas shore on Aug. 13 when they spotted something in the water.

“We were drifting from one of the rigs and all of a sudden I saw this big black shadow and didn’t take me but a few seconds to realize it was a whale shark,” Smith told KSAT. “So I started yelling ‘whale shark, whale shark’ to Alexus.”“We saw it maybe 45 seconds before it went deeper and swam off,” said Smith.

The sharks can grow up to 40 feet in length and scientists believe they can live to be 60-100 years old, according to the

 

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