Using the scientific publication "Sizing Ocean Giants" as a reference, and with @SenSanders hight reported as 6 feet tall, we can assume that each Bernie is approximately 1 meter. This allows us to measure ocean creatures in units Bernie...
Paper: https://t.co/TFRnKFZ1Yj
The largest basking shark ever recorded was 12.27 m, and was entangled in a herring net on August 6, 1851 in Musquash Harbor, Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada. https://t.co/LqW2GhJc2A