Posted on 08/19/2020 1:01:37 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Video from AIR7 HD shows the harrowing moment when lifeguards pulled the shark from the water at Newport Beach. A shark was euthanized after lifeguards on Friday afternoon caught a 6-foot shark with their bare hands near Newport Beach's Balboa Pier.
Dramatic aerial video from AIR7 HD shows the lifeguards approaching the shark about 1:30 p.m. after ordering all swimmers out of the water.
The five lifeguards then pounced on the floundering shark and dragged it onto the sand.
No injuries were reported.
Lifeguards said two small thresher sharks came ashore, one at the Balboa Pier and the other in Corona del Mar at Inspiration Point. The shark in Corona del Mar was towed out to sea. Lifeguards removed the second shark and animal control officers euthanized it.
Lifeguards said both sharks were injured and close to death.
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"We looked over and I saw a fish, but I just ignored it and didn't think it was a shark," said one woman who was in the water at the time. "Next thing you know, I've got a woman yelling at me: 'There's a shark! There's a shark!'
"But I swear I felt that thing touch my leg -- the back of the tail," the swimmer said. "It was slimy."
Chris Lowe, a professor of marine biology and director of the Shark Lab at California State Long Beach, was shown video of the incident and said the shark appeared to be a juvenile thresher shark.
Sightings of thresher sharks are common in the area at this time of year, and people fishing from Balboa Pier sometimes catch them.
Sharks lives matter
Had the swimmer been “brushed” by a Thresher shark’s tail, he would be MISSING some skin. = Thresher’s tails are VERY abrasive.
(The skin of a shark is NOT at all “slimy”.)
Yours, TMN78247
EUTHANIZED??
Are we too gentle to say KILLED??
Zillions of tiny “teeth”.
EXACTLY SO & even a baby Thresher, like that 6-footer, would “beat you to a bloody pulp” with that tail. = A Thresher is about equally dangerous at the tail end as they are at the snout.
Yours, TMN78247
I wonder how they taste?
Guess it’s time for breakfast.
Two sharks injured and near death. Probably Orcas.
That's when I said: "Okay. It's time to go."
I've never regretted it.
Amazing. Thresher shark is better than Swordfish.
I had a little sand shark scrape my leg swimming by me in Virginia, when I was a teen.
It was like hacksaw blade being dragged across my shin.
Kinda sweet, like scallops
I’ve never eaten Thresher BUT the little Bonnetheads (to about 10-15#) are “JUST WONDERFUL”, simply gutted/skinned, put on the pit whole, mopped with melted butter/pepper & BBQed.
ImVho, only fresh WAHOO steaks, grilled over green hickory or pecan wood, is as good.
Yours, TMN78247
Never had Wahoo but Cobia is hard to beat, especially smoked.
Had some shark that was very good but it needs to be
bled after being caught.
IF we are to believe the “press report” that the lifeguards caught the little shark “with bare hands”, I wonder how their bare hands looked thereafter??
(It only took ONE such experience for “this country boy” grabbing an about 7-foot Bull shark, that I was trying to land without heavy gloves, to learn that lesson.)
Yours, TMN78247
Are we too gentle to say KILLED??
He sleeps with the fishes.
Any shark that you want to cook NEEDS to be immediately killed, bled out (We usually cut off the head & hang them up for a few minutes), gutted/skinned & quickly ICED down. - In my experience, “waiting” quickly makes GOOD shark meat nearly inedible.
Yours, TMN78247
Having made a habit of grabbing little sand sharks now and then, *if* the shark didn’t squirm backwards, maybe not too bad.
:)
Not doing so allows ammonia to form and makes it uneatable.
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