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.
Shark skin used to be used instead of sand paper.
Also caught a Gar once, the scales tore me up.
EXACTLY.
(Personally, I like BBQ shark BEST when we clean/cook it on the beach. We “drag around” a medium-sized/wood-fired pit, on our landside fishing trips - SALT AIR makes most everybody hungry.)
Btw, the USN says that spoiled shark meat makes a “pretty good” shark repellent.
Yours, TMN78247
UNDERSTOOD. - MULE-hide gloves are “your friend”.
Yours, TMN78247
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