Lifeguard rescues shark … from swimmers
Published: September 4, 2007
A 2 foot sand shark coming close to the beach of Coney Island, New York, has been rescued from a mob of swimmers by a Coney Island lifeguard.
“They were holding onto it and some people were actually hitting him, smacking his face. Well, I wasn’t going to let them hurt the poor thing.”
Marisu Mironescu, 39, held the shark in his arms and carried it, backstroking out to sea, where he let it go. He describes the shark as largely harmless.
“He was making believe like he’s dead, then he wriggled his whole body and tried to bite me.”
The group of about 75 to 100 swimmers was probably a bit spooked by the shark due to prior events.
Saturday a 5-foot thresher shark washed up on Rockaway Beach, sending hundreds of swimmers out of the water.
“We had a little bit of a punctuation mark at the end of summer with ‘Jaws’ junior showing up and frightening people,” said Adrian Benepe, the city Parks Commissioner.
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