WATCH ABOVE: Tourists pull an injured hammerhead shark to shore on a Florida beach and frantically try to save it. Zak Dahlheimer reports.
TORONTO – A pair of brothers from Texas have become famous on their summer vacation after one pulled a hammerhead shark onto a beach with his bare hands.
Logan and Marcus Lakos were enjoying the sunshine at Henderson Beach State Park on Monday when Logan, an avid fisherman, noticed what looked like an injured shark in shallow waters near his mother.
He claims that it was adrenaline that helped him jump in and pull the shark out.
“I started pulling it in and it was kind of scary, but hammerhead sharks aren’t really that dangerous to humans,” Logan told WJHG.
Others on the Destin beach – located in Florida’s Panhandle – were initially shocked at what they were watching.
“Everyone else was freaking out so it was hard to bring him in,” Logan added. “But once people started realizing we were trying to help it, some of the other guys around were all crowding around it and trying to help it.”
Logan’s brother, Marcus, wasn’t as keen to grab the shark but did manage to grab a camera and record footage of the entire ordeal.
“I’m just like, ‘I’m going to grab my camera,'” Marcus added in the NBC report. “Because Logan, he’s the brave one. He’s swimming out trying to help grab it, so I wanted to grab whatever I can on film since I’m the film person. I’m sitting there, and out of nowhere, he’s dragging this thing onto shore.”
The shark actually got away after pulling it to shore the first time. But the brothers caught up with it 100 feet down the beach and were eventually able to remove two fishing hooks out of its mouth before releasing it.
As for whether or not it was a good decision to go anywhere near the shark – it turns out the beachgoers probably weren’t in any danger.
“Most hammerhead species are fairly small and are considered harmless to humans,” National Geographic states on its website. “However, the great hammerhead’s enormous size and fierceness make it potentially dangerous, though few attacks have been recorded.”
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