While walking her dogs along the beach near Nehalem Bay State Park in Oregon, Colleen Dunn encountered an unexpected sight on October 10— a juvenile salmon shark stranded in shallow water . Initially mistaking it for driftwood, Dunn realized the three-foot-long shark was gasping for air. With no visible injuries and no one nearby to assist, she decided to take action.

Dunn first moved the shark into a tide pool, hoping it would survive until the tide returned. However, as the tide receded and daylight faded, she knew she had to act quickly. Unable to reach park officials or her husband, Dunn lifted the shark by its tail and carried it to the ocean . "I picked him up and got as deep as I could in the water and tossed him," she recounted in a Facebook video.

To her relief, the shark

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