Shock! We diverge away from basking sharks in this episode! Well....we mention them a few time!

We don't just love basking sharks, there are loads of other sharks around the Scottish coast. Including some local favorites such as the flapper skate and spurdog. Two species our guest James, has written papers on. His study was instrumental in setting up the Loch Sunart to Jura MPA for flapper skate. 

The spurdogs are also close to Shane's heart as run a pioneering scuba dive to interact with them around Oban. We hear about James's study on them, how they are doing as a species and how important Loch Etive is to them. 

As we are all shark fanatics our chat heads down the shark worm hole and we end up talking about all sorts of sharks that we can find around the coast. Including Tope, Porbeagles, Blues & Threshers.

This is a brilliant episode to chat about all the different sharks on our coast that you might not have heard about!