Paddleboarders spotted a huge '10 metre' shark cruising just metres off the British coastline.<br /><br />Carla Smith, 20, spotted the basking shark around 35 metres off Lendalfoot Beach, in Girvan, Scotland.<br /><br />After people with binoculars spotted a fin on the horizon her boyfriend Andy Milae, 20, put up his drone to identify the swimmer, on Tuesday (30).<br /><br />Carla and Andy, from Troon, took to the water on their paddleboards and accidentally crossed paths with the shark, remaining still as it drifted by calmly. <br /><br />Carla, a student from Rutherglen, Scotland, said: “You could see the fin on the horizon.<br /><br />“People started shouting: 'There is a shark in the water!'<br /><br />"We still thought it was maybe a dolphin and it was only once we had the drone that we knew.”<br /><br />The stunning footage they captured settled the nerves of tourists on the beach, when they realised it was a basking shark.<br /><br />Carla said: “They don’t eat people, which was a relief.”<br /><br />Basking sharks migrate to Scotland in summer months to feed on the abundance of plankton, before returning to southerly sub-tropics. <br /><br />Basking sharks can reach up to 12m in length and weigh some six tonnes, making them the largest shark in UK seas. <br /><br />It is the second largest fish in the world, behind the whale shark.<br /><br />Carla said: “It swam underneath us which was so cool.”
