*eia
*water

I liked the part where the shark came back to say good-bye [or was it hello?] =oI

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im pleased he dragged it back into the sea instead of letting it suffer

That is not a great white.....its more likely a tiger shark.
Great whites are ENORMOUS sharks.

Could be a juvenile?

Regardless, that guy gets all the kudos.

I heard a pro fisherman compare a fish out of water to a human running 200 metres and then holding their breath. Helping the shark was Karma in the bank

>> ^charliem:

That is not a great white.....its more likely a tiger shark.
Great whites are ENORMOUS sharks.


Someone needs to watch their Shark Week

Shark: "LET... ME... DIE!"

STUUUUUUUUUUUUD!

Too bad the shark was probably sick.

>> ^charliem:

That is not a great white.....its more likely a tiger shark.
Great whites are ENORMOUS sharks.


Yeah, 'cause they're born fully grown...

*jaws music

5 minutes of image.google and Wikipedia research tells me this is indeed a great white, FWIW.

Sounded like they were from *downunder

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Can't I just commit shark-suicide in peace?

Congrats, you just drowned a land shark.

*promote

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Cool on the EIA tag... which participant is it flagged for....

*nature

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Am i right in thinking that dragging a shark backwards can drown it?

Why is this tagged EIA? Because it's a fish coming out of the sea?

That guy didn't get his nards chomped. No evolution (just a theory or not) visible to me.

>> ^dannym3141:

Am i right in thinking that dragging a shark backwards can drown it?


I think "drown" is probably the wrong term technically. They extract oxygen from water, so it's impossible for them to drown (i.e. for their (non-existent) lungs to fill with water). But many shark species' gills function in a way such that they have to be moving forward in order for their gills to extract the oxygen. So I suppose dragging a shark backwards technically would be suffocating it (i.e. it's not getting enough oxygen to "breathe").

However, apparently science textbooks claim that if sharks don't move forward they "drown".

*shrug*

Source: http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/zoology/marine-life/shark-drown.htm

I have all sorts of respect for someone doing this. The great white is endangered and an awesome animal.

Great White gills are louvered backwards, so pulling it through the water by it's caudal likely helped it "breathe". It's like catch-and-release fishing when you do the same thing to an exhausted fish to revive it. Unfortunately, this shark seemed sick or something, as it kept swimming back to shore, and I doubt it survived. Still, he's a good human for trying to help it.

>> ^dannym3141:

Am i right in thinking that dragging a shark backwards can drown it?


Something tells me it's not worse than laying in the sand.

They were right to keep their Jack Russel Terrorist away from the shark. Full grown healthy Great White wouldn't have a chance against those Pocket Hounds of Hell.

So many amusing comments in this thread, it's a pity this is not one of them.

See I would chop that shit up and eat shark for a month.

>> ^CaptainObvious:

Congrats, you just drowned a land shark.


haha, I was just about to post the same comment when I saw yours.

Kids were annoying.

Oh really, then we'd better track down the videographer and tell him next time he's videoing somebody dragging a Great White shark back into the surf to make sure there are no kids around to ruin the experience for you.>> ^Pevs86:

Kids were annoying.

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