10 Ft. Great White Shark Stuck in Shallow Water Saved by South Australian Locals in Nearly Hour-Long Rescue

https://people.com/great-white-shark-stranded-beach-rescued-by-australian-locals-11725548

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NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Found some of the footage from the rescue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIQz5RBKUsA

HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

That’s one confused shark! “WTF is going on here?”

mEEGal@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

yup. been there

Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

I hate "people" as a group, but people as a person are usualy great. This is a great example of the latter and a reminder that despite all the news about "people", there are still individual persons out there doing good things.

b3an@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I think it’s admirable we find heart even for ‘predators of the deep’. Though, I feel like that was still super dangerous.. like if it was hurt and accidentally hurt it trying to move it and it thrashes a tail or that massive head full of teeth… humans aren’t exactly agile in standing water like that.

Ofc, the desire to help internally is still there. I feel like I would have made a call to the coast guard to pull it out to sea more.

I don’t live there though, just working through the mental checklist of “what would I do”

Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Sounds like they used rakes to create a deeper channel for the shark to swim in. That should be possible to do while not getting too close to the shark in general.

b3an@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

That is clever human thinking. I like!