Florida beachgoer wrangles shark caught on fishing rod: video

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WARNING: This footage whitethorn beryllium disturbing to immoderate viewers

North Florida beachgoers were amazed erstwhile an different marine animal sewage caught connected a sportfishing rod this week.

Onlooker Brooke Gamble posted footage of nan incident that took spot astatine Miramar Beach adjacent Destin, Florida, connected Sunday, which appears to show dozens of group looking connected arsenic a fisherman spent hours attempting to reel successful a ample catch. 

Moments later, nan funny crowd saw what was connected nan different end:  a 7-and-a-half-foot shark. 

"Initially, it wasn't a immense woody because we didn't cognize for judge what he had caught," Gamble told Fox News Digital, adding that it was her first clip seeing a unrecorded shark. "When it was getting person to shore, we could spot that it was a shark, and everyone astir started cheering! It was exciting, to opportunity nan least."

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Split image of man wrangling and measuring shark

The shark, which was recovered adjacent Destin, Florida, was astir 8 feet long. (Brooke Gamble / LOCAL NEWS X /TMX)

Gamble's video appears to show nan shark getting stuck successful nan beach's shallow waters erstwhile a fisherman approached it and began dragging it person to shore. 

A crowd of tense onlookers tin beryllium seen gathered astir nan man, watching arsenic nan somewhat uncommon and perchance vulnerable brushwood unfolded. 

The crowd seemed amused and astonished by nan catch. Several beachgoers grabbed their smartphones to grounds nan incident.

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The seaside visitors were soon cheering for nan man, though, arsenic he wrangled nan shark and brought it to nan shore. 

"What is he thinking?" an awestruck female beachgoer tin beryllium heard asking.

The spectators quickly erupted successful applause aft it was yet caught. They besides posed for a image pinch nan men who helped grip nan shark. 

Fisherman reeling successful shark

A Facebook personification said that nan fisherman took 45 minutes to reel successful nan shark. (Brooke Gamble / LOCAL NEWS X /TMX)

Gamble told Fox News Digital that it took nan fisherman 2 hours to reel successful nan shark.

"Touch it! Touch it!" 1 personification was heard saying off-camera.

Measuring portion was soon taken retired to find nan shark's length, which was 7 and a half feet. According to nan Smithsonian, awesome achromatic sharks tin turn to beryllium arsenic agelong arsenic 20 feet, and whale sharks tin transcend 60 feet.

When nan nosy was over, a group of men took nan shark backmost retired into nan ocean. 

Split image of man successful h2o pinch shark and men releasing shark

A group of men appeared to merchandise nan shark backmost into nan water aft nan spectacle was over. (Brooke Gamble / LOCAL NEWS X /TMX)

There was nary denotation that nan shark was wounded by nan encounter, and Gamble is affirmative that nan marine animal is safe and sound.

"I cognize nan shark is safe because nan fisherman released nan shark backmost into nan wild," she explained.

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The men who helped bring it to statement and nan onlookers were besides safe.

No further specifications astir nan incident are available.

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