That makes it more than four times the length of the average human male. Images of the spectacular animal show that it has slight decay, but otherwise it is still in all its glory. Several people took to social media to speculate on what the shark was doing - although few in the Twittersphere were taking the animals death seriously. One person wrote: "Was it Covid-19?" WATCH: A 26-foot basking shark washed up on the shore in Bremen on Tuesday. Local fishermen reported it to the Maine Dept. of Marine Resources, who took samples for research. Basking sharks, the second-largest fish in the world, are not considered a risk to humans. pic.twitter.com/WAHvoD8zTG— NEWS CENTER Maine (@newscentermaine) January 5, 2021