DUBAI: We all know there are sharks in the sea, but it is not every day you see a 14-foot- long great white shark thrashing on the shore.
That is what happened to Dale Pearson, who came across the huge shark in shallow waters near his home in Puertecitos in Baja California, Mexico.
In a viral YouTube video, two men can be heard discussing whether it is a hammerhead as they wade through the shallow waters, before realizing it is “a giant white shark.”
Speaking to the Huffington Post, dive boat operator Pearson said: “It would come in to the shallows and lay there motionless, then it would move out again (swimming to) 6 feet of water, circle back in (to the shallows), come into another spot and lay there motionless.”
As they filmed the encounter, they spotted that the shark had an open wound behind its dorsal fin that was likely caused by a boat propeller.
But according to the Marine Conservation Science Institute, it is unlikely that the wounds would kill the shark, saying on its Facebook page: “They are exceptionally tough with incredible healing ability.”
Writing on the page, Mark Domeier, marine biologist and president of the institute, said the shark was probably hunting for stingrays.
“White sharks are generalists (and scavengers) when it comes to diet… In other words they will eat whatever they want at that moment!” he wrote.
Apparently the shark was gone by the following day, suggesting it was not stranded after all.
Massive great white shark filmed swimming into shallow waters
Massive great white shark filmed swimming into shallow waters
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