
Fishermen paddling a tourist boat out to sea for whale shark watching Whale sharks can grow to enormous sizes, the largest measuring 12.2m and estimated at 21.5 tonnes in weight (about 10 average-sized sedan cars) with unconfirmed reports of even bigger specimens.
Lee Yu Kit is a contributor to The Edge Malaysia. This article appeared in Issue 820 (Mar 5) of The Edge Singapore. Subscribe to The Edge at https://www.theedgesingapore.com/subscribe