Crews in Chatham, Massachusetts, led beached shark back to the open ocean on Monday.
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Cynthia Wigren of the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy told CBS affiliate WTKR that sharks often got stuck in the shallow waters along the coast. This doesn’t mean that sharks aren’t unsafe or they can’t attack humans, just that this happens extremely rarely.
Bartel said, “Thanks to the harbour master and beach-goers, this shark was saved”.
A young, great white shark has been rescued from near-certain death by a group of people relaxing on a beach.
Kind-hearted onlookers kept the shark wet with buckets of sea water until help arrived.
She said bystanders cheered as the shark swam away.
Harbormaster Stuart Smith and shark expert Greg Skomal then took over the rescue, tying a rope around the animal’s tail and dragging it back into the sea.
Marine fisheries attached a line to the shark’s rear fin and pulled it back into the water.
When rescuers arrived on Chatham South Beach the seven and a half foot male shark was motionless and struggling to breathe.
One Great White was tagged last week, and two more were spotted Friday.
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A short ferry ride away from Martha’s Vineyard, home of ” Jaws”, the people of Chatham, Massachusetts, are used to the occasional shark sighting.
