Show the shark the ferocity of sharks ia not necessarily in proportion to their gizo for example there is the great basking so called because of its habit of lying motionless at the surface of the water it often attains a length of nearly orty feet but its teeth are small campara t ly ano it probably never attacks man depending apon beall fishes and for its diet another name for this species ia sail fish because of its great back fin which shows out of the water like a sail when it ia although sluggish ordinarily and easily harpooned it exhibits great activity and enormous strength when diving immediately to the bottom and requiring a great length of rope to hold it these basking sharks are caught for their livers off the coast of iceland and the oil obtained is used to adulterate cod liver oil washington glon star |