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Bystanders Help Save a Beached Great White Shark

submitted by lucky760

8 years 9 months 3 weeks ago

"The shark was stuck there for a while in the sand, so then people got buckets and were trying keep it wet so it could continue to breathe,” Isabelle Hegland told CBS Boston. "I was a little afraid, but I could tell it wasn’t moving anytime soon because the shore was going way out, it was approaching towards low tide so it was becoming increasingly difficult for the shark to keep its gills wet and be able to breathe."

Witnesses told the station that the young shark beached itself chasing after a seagull.

Beachgoers kept the shark wet until rescuers arrived to pull it into the water and release it safely back into the ocean.

^via HuffPo

5 Comments

sanderbos says...

First guns replaced with walkie talkies in E.T., and now this romanticized retelling of Jaws, it's disgusting.
I must admit the shark's motions really get to me in the first 20 seconds. But in the last 2 minutes I bet it's thinking "please, just let me die in peace".

For those like me that wondered, "so how does it end", some follow-up but no real conclusion in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlav-qXdNyU

At the end of that video it is swimming on its own and the YT description there says "The team was eventually able to revive the shark and lead it out into the ocean approximately 1 mile offshore."

Seems conclusive.

For those like me that wondered, "so how does it end", some follow-up but no real conclusion

I'm surprised how long they can survive out of water. Certainly longer than a human can survive without air? What kind of damage does it do to an aquatic brain?

Awesome job all around.

coolhund says...

And they drove off into the sun. Hey wait, why are they heading towards Japan?

It may be that they can get more oxygen from the air than we can from water, or at least if you keep the gills wet then some oxygen will dissolve into the water on the gills. I'm guessing if the gills dry out they would probably die pretty quickly. But ye, I'm just guessing.

I'm surprised how long they can survive out of water. Certainly longer than a human can survive without air? What kind of damage does it do to an aquatic brain?

Awesome job all around.

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