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Huge thresher shark washes ashore at NYC’s Rockaway Beach, shocking swimmers

A large shark washed ashore at a New York City beach on Monday, August 26. Footage captured by Zoe Berger shows the thresher shark stranded on the sand at Rockaway Beach in Queens. Berger told Storyful the shark wasnât beached for long before two men and a woman took action, jumping in the water to help guide it back to sea. Gio, one of the men helping, had to hold the shark by its fin and steer it back to the ocean multiple times, she said. Eventually, the shark stayed in the deeper water at the end of the jetty away from the sand. https://newswire.storyful.com/story/311841

Zoe Berger was at Rockaway Beach in Queens on Monday when she saw the shark stranded on the sand.

She said the sea creature wasn’t beached for long before three good Samaritans took action, jumping in the water to help guide it back out to open waters.

One of the men helping even had to hold the shark by its fin and steer it back to the ocean multiple times.

Eventually, the shark stayed in the deeper water at the end of the jetty away from beachgoers.

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