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Oregon Beachgoer Comes to the Rescue of Beached Shark
Colleen Dunn carried a 3-foot salmon shark from a low-tide zone to deeper water, saving it from suffocation, and posted the rescue on social media last month.
- Last month, Colleen Dunn rescued a beached salmon shark on a Manzanita, Oregon beach near Nehalem Bay State Park after finding it stranded in the low-tide area.
- Having recently moved from Hawaii, Colleen Dunn said the ocean gives her a sense of belonging and motivates helping wildlife, noting `Like, I'm the type of person, if there's a caterpillar on the trail that I'm hiking, I move it off the trail`.
- Dunn said, `Probably about 15 feet in front of me, I saw something that looked like driftwood and then, I noticed it was moving`, and she proceeded despite feeling nervous after her husband at Nehalem Bay State Park didn’t answer.
- After being moved into deeper water, Taylor Chapple, shark expert, Oregon State University, said the juvenile salmon shark regained gill movement and swam away, she said.
- The rescue drew attention because it is unusual for a beachgoer to intervene, as local observers noted Dunn's ethic that she won't allow something to die on her watch drew local interest in the Manzanita area.
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A mother of three and nature-loving dog walker saved a life in Oregon when she returned a stranded salmon shark to deeper water at Nehalem Bay State Park.
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