Beachgoers band together to save a Great White Shark
It just missed out on Shark Week
Just missing out on Shark Week, a Great White was found beached off the coast of Cape Cod, the Providence Journal reports. But instead of hacking the stranded creature to pieces in a panic-driven frenzy, Chatham beachgoers actually worked together to save the beached shark.
Harbormaster Stuart Smith and shark expert Gregory Skomal marvelled at the reaction, with Skomal telling the Journal, “thirty years ago they’d want to kill it and now they want to save it.’’
Despite the public’s efforts of pouring water on the animal so it wouldn’t dry out, the shark initially appeared dead. However when Smith and Skomal began discussing cutting it up for science research, the shark began moving pretty quickly, according to the Journal. The two and a crew ended up slipping a giant bridle around the shark, walking it “like a big dog’’ back into deeper waters. Though in the video it does look a little more like dragging a big sled.
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