{"id":168193,"date":"2025-11-07T16:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/168193\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:34:11","slug":"woman-rescues-a-beached-shark-in-oregon-in-striking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/168193\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman rescues a beached shark in Oregon in striking\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A woman was walking her dogs on an Oregon<\/a> beach when she saw a small shark struggling.<\/p>\n

It was lucky timing for the salmon shark, which was suffocating in a low tide area near the shoreline.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was essentially nervous about touching it at all,\u201d Colleen Dunn, wrote in a text message Wednesday. “I have three kids so I didn\u2019t wanna put myself in a dangerous position.\u201d<\/p>\n

At first, she thought it was a baby great white.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The shark was able to push water through its gills once again, and then swam out of view.<\/p>\n

Dunn says she posted about the encounter last month on a local social media group, and nobody reported the shark washing back up on shore. She used to live in Hawaii<\/a> and recently moved her family to Manzanita, Oregon, near the park where she saw the shark. The ocean and the creatures in it give her a sense of belonging, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve lived in other places across the Pacific<\/a>, and the ocean has always been my grounding place. Being engaged with it, watching the tides, noticing the wildlife, even stepping in when a creature needs help keeps me present and humble,\u201d Dunn said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was walking her dogs on an Oregon beach when she saw a small shark struggling. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[9,1063,18,1831,19,1826,17,5,1828,1827,1829,133,1830,461,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-168193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-daily-news","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-global-news","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-inkl","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-news-app","17":"tag-news-headlines","18":"tag-news-today","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-today-news","21":"tag-wildlife","22":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115509386827703494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}