Beached Great White Shark Hitches Ride To Safety via Sucker Human--Whee!
I can’t tell who’s having more fun in this video—the shark that was beached or the human that took it upon themselves to be good samaritans. Just kidding, it’s totally the shark.
A juvenile great white was trying to eat seagulls (gross) Monday morning on Cape Cod’s Chatham Beach and inadvertently beached itself (idiot). A bunch of people kept the shark (“basically a toddler” says CBS Boston) alive by pouring water onto its gills until shark expert Greg Skomal arrived.
“Still alive but very sluggish, barely moving, so we put a tag on it,” Skomal told CBS Boston, “and then resuscitated the shark by putting a bridle around it and with the harbormaster’s help put it out into deeper water where we were able to resuscitate it and let it go.”
I joke because I care. The video above is nothing short of a triumph of the Carcharodon spirit, which is similar to but not to be confused with a triumph of the of the delphinidae spirit.
Will this shark come back to visit its saviors and thank them in the only way a great white knows how (by ripping into live flesh with its teeth)? Maybe. More likely, when the tides rise and we all drown, it will remember this moment, chuckle to itself, and think, “See ya, suckers.”
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