It’s what sharks dream of: A massive easy meal.

Lucky sharks were recently spotted chowing down on a basking shark’s liver off the North Shore, according to a local whale watch.

The 7 Seas Whale Watch out of Gloucester came across the feast on Wednesday. The mesmerized whale watchers got a front-row seat to blue sharks feeding on the giant liver of a basking shark.

“It was so cool,” 7 Seas Whale Watch lead naturalist Amanda Johnston told the Herald. “It’s something you might see in National Geographic, but we’ve never seen anything like this out here.”

The boat was in Jeffreys Ledge, about 33 miles north of Gloucester, when they received a report from another boat that there was some large piece of fat or carcass floating at the surface. The whale watch then found the shark’s liver wit

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