Footage has emerged of an endangered Grey Nurse shark being freed from
an elastic cord noose off a beach in Sydney, Australia. Experts had to
manhandle the shark to the surface to perform the tricky operation.
Local had divers spotted the young female grey nurse shark tangled in an
elastic cord which was cutting into its gills.
Her labored breathing was a sign of distress triggering the daring
rescue at Magic Point, which is a crucial shark habitat. The challenge
for a team of divers and a vet from the SeaLife sanctuary and aquarium
was to save the shark. The team had to get the shark to the surface
and coax it into a plastic shark sock, clear so the shark would not see it as an obstacle.
The shark was then wrapped in a special stretcher and that's where the
professionals had to get a little hands-on. A quick underwater wrestle
did the job and the injured shark was taken up to waiting vet Rob Jones;
the water's surface was his operating table and there wasn't much time.
Three divers held her steady. A pair of scissors later and she was freed
from her noose. A quick shot of antibiotics and the patient was free to
go home. Mr Jones said: “if we hadn't intervened have no about it would
have died, the elastic would have kept cutting deeper and deeper into
the neck.”
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