It was the catch of the day that made the amazed beachgoers turn their heads twice.<\/p>\n
A calm fisherman calmly put his hands in the mouth of an eight-foot shark, dragging it ashore in the Los Angeles area, and then pulled the toothy predator back into the Pacific Ocean as shocked onlookers watched the savage scene unfold.<\/p>\n
The terrifying encounter took place at Sunset Point Beach, where an unnamed fisherman caught what witnesses believe was a young shark, possibly a great white, about 8 feet long.<\/p>\n The beach rescue operation also echoes another viral moment that occurred earlier this year.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The video shows the exhausted shark struggling in the sand as a crowd gathers around.<\/p>\n Instead of panicking, the fisherman methodically loosened the hook, at one point shoving it right into the shark's mouth, before hauling the animal back into the surf.<\/p>\n According to eyewitnesses, "the shark swam away into Santa Monica Bay and was never seen again," suggesting the young killer survived the encounter.<\/p>\n Instead of panicking, the fisherman methodically released the hook.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The disturbing scene is the latest in a string of shark encounters along the Southern California coast, where experts say there have been unusually large numbers of young great white sharks this summer.<\/p>\n \u00ab"We're expecting a very busy summer for sharks," Dr. Chris Lowe, director of the shark research lab at California State University, Long Beach, told The Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n Lowe attributed the surge in sightings of juvenile great white sharks to unusually warm waters affected by El Ni\u00f1o, which create ideal breeding habitat near shore.<\/p>\n Young sharks can feast on rays and other prey while remaining out of reach of larger predators.<\/p>\n The beach rescue operation also echoes another viral moment that occurred earlier this year.<\/p>\n Despite the unexpected occurrences, marine scientists emphasize that there is little cause for panic.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n In April, 20-year-old fisherman Kevin Phan caught a young great white shark off nearby Hermosa Beach, then stripped down to his underwear and carried the shark back into the ocean.<\/p>\n The unusual rescue operation received widespread praise online, with many praising the young fisherman for giving the shark another chance at survival.<\/p>\n Young sharks may feast on rays and other prey.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The sighting reports did not end there.<\/p>\n Drone footage was recently captured of a juvenile great white shark jumping out of the water behind a man boogie boarding in Newport Beach.<\/p>\n Another aerial video showed a shark swimming near unsuspecting children swimming in the water.<\/p>\n Despite the unexpected occurrences, marine scientists emphasize that there is little cause for panic.<\/p>\n Sharks do not show aggression or malice towards people and do not hunt people for food.<\/p>\n Bites remain rare and usually occur when a curious shark mistakes a swimmer for a seal.<\/p>\n With Southern California now serving as a seasonal breeding ground for juvenile great white sharks, experts say beachgoers should expect an increase in such incidents, even if the likelihood of an actual attack remains extremely low.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was the catch of the day that made the astonished beachgoers turn their heads twice. The unfazed fisherman calmly thrust his hands into the eight-foot shark's mouth, hauling it ashore\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","hvn-theme-has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20091"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161628,"href":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20091\/revisions\/161628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}