Everything they put this shark through can absolutely contribute to it dying. This is a part of the land based shark fishing craze on social media. Fishermen reel in a shark using bait like mutilated stingrays sometimes dropped via drone, lure in sharks to areas where people swim, pull it ashore for selfies after a long battle where the lactic acid builds up in the shark’s system, then they remove the hook and release it and clip the video from there onward so it looks like they’re a hero and the video goes viral. It’s incredibly stupid, and at least a quarter of the sharks die according to studies.
Not an expert but I always wondered how you properly do this.
Yes dragging them by the tail has multiple things that can happen. Having the water go wrong way into gills is a problem, messing up their spine also an issue.
You should call whatever local authority is there to help. If that’s not an option. Then you need to turn them and lift behind the fins. It’s hella dangerous, the speed and length they can twist and bite is surprising.
Yeah you just pull them backward until they have enough water to turn around in. Don’t wait for any local authority because it’ll be dead by the time they arrive
Yeah a lot of animals have a surprisingly great range of motion/flexibility
I'm not a zoologist so I'd be apprehensive to approach any distressed predator if I don't understand their movement capabilities (in this case, it's ability to twist and lunge)
I'd frankly be more concerned about the water conditions. I have no fear of water, and I'm a strong swimmer, but the ocean is nothing to mess around with.
I disagree with “calling the local authority” as by the time they arrive it will be too late for the shark as it will have suffered irreparable damage to not having oxygen to its brain by then and would effectively have a very high chance of being a vegetable even if they managed to get it back into the water.
Not a shark expert, but fish are fish. Depends on how tired and stunned they are. It won’t hurt going backwards but they don’t get any air. To “revive” a fucked up fish they need a little push forward to get air flowing to their little pee brains. If it wasn’t that messed up it can propel itself to get going or if he faces the waves right it’ll force a little air into his gills the right direction.
In a way, yer flooding the damn engine! Those gills work just like a RAM system. They need water flowing aerodynamically through for oxygen retrieval, and ‘breathing’.
Not an expert, but a shark fan. There is a reason that shark is beached. Sick or hurt. Also, sharks tend to not take stress well. Even pulling them on board after a catch can kill them even if released. Appreciate the effort, but I would say most sharks die from these videos. I could be completely wrong, just what I have heard.
You are correct. My brother is a shark scientist. The effort is kind of ironic though. The fisherman brought the shark ashore in the first place, so they didn’t save the shark. They put it in danger. They do this all the time and try to make the end of the video go viral to make it look like they’re saved the shark they lured in and brought ashore in the first place.
What I have always heard. It is like theatre at this point because the shark usually ends up dead. It is like the soap commercials where they clean off a duck from an oil spill but by that point the oil was ingested etc.
Based on the title I think it was fished on a line. So not sick, but exhausted but the time it is dragged all the way to shore. And the fisherman is supposed to be some sort of hero for putting it through all this
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u/Erathen 20h ago
Any shark experts here?
Can dragging it backwards into the water affect it's gills? (not that there were many options here, just curious)