A woman named Tina Fey recorded the dramatic scene on video, capturing her husband, Josh, and two other men working to save the shark stuck on the shore of Pensacola Beach.
In the clip, the shark thrashes as the group of rescuers work to move the animal back into the water. At one point, Fey zooms in on thesharkand its giant maw, shouting to Josh, “Babe, look at them freakin' teeth!”
Once the shark’s thrashing gets too intense for comfort, the men step away from the animal, giving it space until they deem it safe enough to resume the rescue.
The video ends with the group getting the mako shark fully submerged in the ocean water once more and watching the animal swim off.
A group of rescuers help a beached mako shark get off the shore of Pensacola Beach.storyful
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Fey and her husband visited Pensacola Beach on Thursday to celebrate their wedding anniversary, Fey told Storyful. She said she was in the water when her husband saw the shark and “yelled at me to get out of the water.” According to her, the mako shark swam towards the shore and stranded itself.
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“After a few seconds of seeing it struggle to get back in the water, my husband took charge to try to help it,” Fey said, adding, “After a few attempts and two others jumping in to help, they managed to get it back into the water.”
A formerly beached mako sharks swims back in to the ocean after being helped off Pensacola Beach in Florida.storyful
A mako shark stranded on the sand of Pensacola Beach in Florida.storyful
Lyudmila Emag previously spoke toPEOPLEabout a shark that attacked her during theFourth of Julyweekend while she was swimming with friends in the waters around Fire Island, located near the south shore of Long Island, New York.
“We started swimming across the shore, maybe like 30 yards from the shoreline. That’s when I felt like something grabbed me on my thigh,” the 47-year-old told PEOPLE. “I just screamed to my friends, ‘Something is biting me!’ And I felt like it was holding onto me for some time.”
“I couldn’t touch the ground, so I was still swimming with my right arm, and I used my left hand to take it off me,” Emag recalled, noting that she struggled to unclench the shark’s jaw. “I’m not sure exactly if I went inside the shark’s mouth or not, but I had some small cuts on my hand too. I didn’t even see it coming.”
source: people.com
