Dorset Wildlife Photography : Blue Shark tale reaches National Press
06th January 2012
Dorset Wildlife Photography
Blue Shark found on Hive Beach
On Boxing Day a Blue Shark was found washed up on the beach at Burton Bradstock. Unfortunately it was already dead and could not be saved.
I was lucky enough to be around when the shark was spotted, and grabbed my camera and ran to the beach. I was one of the first on the scene and managed to take a few shots. The staff of the Hive Beach Cafe were on the scene, who subsequently reported the shark to the National Trust and spoke to the local press.
The shark had been seen 3 days earlier, in West Bay, when a local woman, Jeanette Longley, walking on the beach, saw the shark and wrestled with it to try and get it back into the deeper water. It appeared at the time that it was trying to beach itself.
When I saw the shark on Boxing Day, no one knew of its earlier sighting and we were confused as to why it had died. The only clue was a sac that was hanging from its abdomen and it had possibly recently given birth which may have caused trauma to the animal.
I logged the pictures with the local press and a regional news agency and the story has now received coverage by the Daily Mail, Mirror, Daily Star and tonight was shown on ITV local news.
A link to the Daily Mail article can be found here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082714/The-moment-fearless-gran-wrestles-shark-Dorset-beach.html
Blue Shark found on Hive Beach
On Boxing Day a Blue Shark was found washed up on the beach at Burton Bradstock. Unfortunately it was already dead and could not be saved.
I was lucky enough to be around when the shark was spotted, and grabbed my camera and ran to the beach. I was one of the first on the scene and managed to take a few shots. The staff of the Hive Beach Cafe were on the scene, who subsequently reported the shark to the National Trust and spoke to the local press.
The shark had been seen 3 days earlier, in West Bay, when a local woman, Jeanette Longley, walking on the beach, saw the shark and wrestled with it to try and get it back into the deeper water. It appeared at the time that it was trying to beach itself.
When I saw the shark on Boxing Day, no one knew of its earlier sighting and we were confused as to why it had died. The only clue was a sac that was hanging from its abdomen and it had possibly recently given birth which may have caused trauma to the animal.
I logged the pictures with the local press and a regional news agency and the story has now received coverage by the Daily Mail, Mirror, Daily Star and tonight was shown on ITV local news.
A link to the Daily Mail article can be found here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082714/The-moment-fearless-gran-wrestles-shark-Dorset-beach.html
Comments
By hamma head: wow is this real?!!!!!!!!