An Australian mother was captured on video lifting a shark with her bare hands.
The police arrived but didn’t know what to do, so Hatheier jumped in to see if she could help. She decided to catch the shark in the shallows so she could get ahold of it. She pressed on its fins so she wouldn’t get bitten. She lifted it up and turned it over on its back so that it wouldn’t move. Then she tossed it back into the freedom of the sea.
The video was posted to the Facebook page of Cronulla Real Estate, the company Hatheier works for when not wrestling sharks. It received 316,000 views and made Hatheier a social media star. Hatheier’s daughter, Shannon, filmed the encounter while her other daughter, Lani, observed. Her son, Nathan, was also there, but he left earlier.
The shark was an infant that she said was about three-feet long. Hatheier mentioned that she wouldn’t have tried to lift a fully grown shark. She didn’t really see the incident as a big deal.
“I was just trying to catch a little shark,” she said. “If it had big teeth I wouldn’t have done it.”
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