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Jim Abernethy and crew free tangled lemon shark

Posted: 14 April 2009 11:02 PM
Last Update: 15 April 2009 09:23 AM
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Author: Eric Cheng ( echeng )
Related Link: JASA saves lemon shark

Our good friend Jim Abernethy over at JASA has posted a video of him and his crew catching a lemon shark in the Bahamas and removing a rope that was wrapped tightly around its head. Jim writes:

The rope was buried roughly an inch under the lemon’s skin, which had obviously continued to grow over it. It must have been there for years. Located in front of the pectoral fins I could see that it was cutting into the gills as well… As I held her still, crew member Sean Payne cut the line with a knife. I immediately pushed her back in the water and watched her swim off knowing she now had many years ahead of her. The total time out of the water was one minute and three seconds.

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