Prince Philip was president of the WWF when he travelled to West Africa An Oxford couple have remembered with fondness the time Prince Philip stayed with them in their mud hut in Africa – and even left them a gift of lemons to go with his royal-crested tonic water. In 1985 zoologist Stephen Cobb was working for the WWF and International Union for the Conservation of Nature and he and his wife Alison were living near Timbuctoo in Mali. They had built a mud-brick house on the sand beside the Niger river, with no running water, no electricity, no refrigerator and no beds.
The 12ft basking shark was photographed by paddle-boarders in Torquay Marina on Wednesday.
Members of Torquay Water Sports described it as an “amazing sight”.
“A basking shark popped in for a look around and then slipped back out again… almost unnoticed,” they said.
“An amazing sight indeed.”
The basking shark was spotted in Torquay Marina (Torquay Water Sports/PA)
The shark was also spotted by members of the RNLI, who estimated it to be between 10ft and 12ft in length.
A RNLI Torbay spokesman said: “The largest fish in British waters, basking sharks are typically anything up to 28ft and can weigh 9,000lb.
The basking shark was spotted in Torquay Marina by paddle-boarders (Torquay Water Sports/PA)
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The 12ft basking shark was photographed by paddle-boarders in Torquay Marina on Wednesday.
Members of Torquay Water Sports described it as an “amazing sight”.
“A basking shark popped in for a look around and then slipped back out again… almost unnoticed,” they said.
“An amazing sight indeed.”
The basking shark was spotted in Torquay Marina (Torquay Water Sports/PA)
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