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Heroic beachgoers rescue shark stranded on beach
A group of beachgoers rescued a struggling beached shark in Perth, Australia last Sunday.
According to reports, the group was visiting Quinns Rocks when they saw the species, believed to be ‘mako shark,’ which swam close to the shore.
A video posted showed the distressed shark thrashing in the shallow water while opening and closing its mouth as seven men pushed it back into the ocean.
‘Mako sharks’ according to officials are classified as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, therefore, the group of men rescuing the species was, indeed, termed heroic deed by social media users.
Meanwhile, in another viral video, a filmmaker managed to record the moment a shark chomped down on his camera, showing what it is like to be eaten by a shark.
Filmmaker and conservationist, Zimy Da Kid, was shooting a documentary in the Maldives when a tiger shark circling him took a bit of his camera. The video caught the inside of the shark’s mouth in incredible detail, with its huge teeth and gills visible. – ndtv.com
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
