Humans Save a Great White Shark Who Was Stranded

A great story this morning of a Great White Shark that became stranded on an American beach only to be kept alive and helped back into the water safely.

Locals discovered the shark on a beach in Chatham, Massachusetts on Monday. It had been stranded when it chased a bird just a little too far.

“There was no way for the shark to get to where it could swim, so it just kept flapping and moving over,” witness Kelly Skanell told WCVB.

Too small to get a date or a proper shark meal, this decidedly undersized teenage male great white beached itself going after a seagull on our favorite beach yesterday. Hahbah patrol got him all fixed up.

A photo posted by Bobby Gorman (@bobs_photos) on Jul 14, 2015 at 8:21am PDT

Eventually the 7-foot male shark was kept wet until rescuers could arrive and carefully move the shark back into the water for release. Some of the images are pretty cool … yay people!

MA DMF’s Dr. Skomal, Atlantic White Shark Conservancy and the Chatham Harbormaster revived this 7′ male white shark today. The shark was beached inside the South Beach cut in Chatham, and was led out to open ocean. #SupportResearch #AWSC #CapeCod #Chatham #Sharks #SharkWeek A photo posted by Atlantic White Shark (@a_whiteshark) on Jul 13, 2015 at 3:54pm PDT

 

More photos of Dr. Skomal, AWSC and the Chatham Harbormaster reviving a 7′ male white shark yesterday after it had stranded inside the South Beach cut in Chatham, MA. #SupportResearch #AWSC #Chatham #Sharks #SharkWeek #CapeCod

A photo posted by Atlantic White Shark (@a_whiteshark) on Jul 14, 2015 at 5:02am PDT

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