A jaw-dropping video is going viral showing a man wrestling with a man-eater shark on a beach in New York, US.?
The incident took place on Sunday (August 14) at Smith Point County Park in Shirley on?Long Island, New York.?
The hair-raising video shows an unidentified man?pulling the shark with its tail while the fish tries to get back into the water. While it appears?that the man is trying to keep the shark from going back into the water, however, he was actually trying to unhook it and set it free.?
“He [the man] had been fishing and caught the shark by accident. He was attempting to unhook it and cut it free.” an eyewitness Emily Murray told the New York Post.?
In the viral clip, the fisherman can be seen standing in the shallows of the water trying to bring the shark to shore.??
A subsequent photo shared online shows the man being assisted by a second person as they pull the predator onto the sand.??
They eventually unhooked the shark and released it back into the water.??
Earlier,?a man's finger was torn off by a?shark?when he tried to remove a hook from the sea beast.
This fisherman named?Brett Reeder took his family out for a fishing trip off the coast of Florida last month and got themselves a surprise when he caught a small predator.??
Brett apparently tried to pick up the shark to impress his son.?The father holds onto the?shark's?fin and puts his other hand right under its mouth to lift it up from the water.??
But the shark writhes and bites onto Brett's hand, thrashing around with blood covering its teeth. "Oh damn it! It got my god damn pinky, F***!" he yells as his son watches in shock.??
The blood-covered?shark?eventually lets it go as the man shouts in pain.??
The man's wife wrote an update. She revealed that he had to be airlifted to hospital – though not before having to drive the boat 25 minutes back to shore himself while his wife calmed the kids down.?
Explaining how the family had been out shark fishing at Content Keys and caught their last shark of the day, he recalled: “I tried to get a hold of him to get my hook back and got unlucky when he spun around and caught the top of my hand, and got my pinky and started twisting."
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