A woman was walking her dogs on an Oregon beach when she saw a small shark struggling.

It was lucky timing for the salmon shark , which was suffocating in a low tide area near the shoreline.

“I was essentially nervous about touching it at all,” Colleen Dunn, wrote in a text message Wednesday. “I have three kids so I didn’t wanna put myself in a dangerous position.”

At first, she thought it was a baby great white.

Dunn called her husband at an office at Nehalem Bay State Park for advice, but got no answer. So, with her dogs waiting patiently, she grabbed the 3-foot (1-meter) shark by the tail and rushed it to deeper water while taking a video of it on her phone. The video can be seen here .

The shark was able to push water through its gills once again, and then swam out of view.

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