Shark Stranded & Saved

[shyvas]

I saw this on Sky news earlier on and it was a hit with the presenters.

 

[Second Summer]

At one point they seems to be poking it with a sharp stick. I wasn't sure what that was about?

Great white sharks need to be moving in order to breathe, so I wonder if that is what they were trying to achieve at the end of the video.
Do Sharks Sleep? - Sharks Are People Too

Do you know if the shark really survived?

 

[ledboots]

At one point they seems to be poking it with a sharp stick. I wasn't sure what that was about?

Great white sharks need to be moving in order to breathe, so I wonder if that is what they were trying to achieve at the end of the video.
Do Sharks Sleep? - Sharks Are People Too

Do you know if the shark really survived?

The shark, a nurse shark, looked as if it did survive the transfer back to the water on the news footage I saw on tv.

I thought they were going to kill the shark at first, I was so worried! Hope it is ok.

 

[Second Summer]

The shark, a nurse shark,

But it says in the video it's a juvenile great white shark...! (I wouldn't know the difference if it jumped out of the water and bit me ) Did they say otherwise on the TV news?

 

[shyvas]

I'm pleased that there were some intelligent people on that beach.

 

[ledboots]

But it says in the video it's a juvenile great white shark...! (I wouldn't know the difference if it jumped out of the water and bit me ) Did they say otherwise on the TV news?

Yes, they identified it as a nurse shark. They look like Great Whites when flopping around on the beach. I can't post the link as the story's from my BayNews9 (local media) phone app.

"FLAGLER BEACH --
Sjay Tilton was in Flagler Beach on Monday trying to catch some king mackerel.

When something much larger hit his friend's line, he knew something was up.

"My buddy's rod went off, and he didn't want to fight it, so he gave it to me," Tilton said Tuesday afternoon.

Tilton, a 14-year-old from Bunnell, hauled in the 7-foot-long nurse shark just south of the Flagler Beach Pier — a popular fishing and surfing location for locals.

Nurse sharks are slow-moving bottom-dwellers and, for the most part, are harmless to humans.

After the teen hooked the shark around 6:35 p.m. Monday, Tilton and a few other beachgoers unhooked the shark and released it back into the Atlantic after a few pictures and videos were taken."

 

[shyvas]

Excellent.