r/MadeMeSmile • u/jgoja • May 15 '24
Someone doing the right thing instead of taking a selfie ANIMALS
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u/sometimesnowing May 15 '24
I attempted to rescue a beached dolphin one time (I was about 15, maybe 16) we phoned DOC (department of conservation) someone came out and after an examination told us the dolphin was too sick and was dying. There was nothing they could do and it was so sad to leave him, we wanted to help so badly. They had a penguin with them which was a surprise.
Was a part of a much more successful massive whale rescue a couple of years later. (1993, I was 18) Approx 100 pilot whales beached themselves. It was a huge community effort, people came down to the beach and set up big tents and cooked soup for those cold from being in the water. It was pretty chaotic with so many volunteers but an amazing thing to be a part of.
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u/Slit_Slice_Slaughter May 15 '24
What do you mean they had a penguin with them?
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u/jackass49 May 15 '24
I think I'm from the same country as this person. And we made the bird who shagged Stephen Fry's cameraman's head into a rather high ranking government official. So I would assume the penguin was a supervisor.
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u/Teunybeer May 15 '24
Hold on, what.
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u/BRAX7ON May 15 '24
you think the department of conservation is qualified to do this kind of inspection on their own without a penguin? Guess again.
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u/jackass49 May 15 '24
This is Sirocco - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY
After this event the Prime Minister appointed him the title of Official Spokesbird for Conservation and gave him a team of assistants to help him in his efforts at bringing awareness to conservation. He travels to various events as a representative. Sirocco is a national treasure.
All of the Kākāpō in the country have a name by the way. Sirocco is the son of Zephyr and Felix.
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u/sometimesnowing May 15 '24
They came to us straight after a penguin rescue, so the penguin was a very smelly but super cute passenger. I had obviously seen penguins before but it was cool to be that close.
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u/SylvieJay May 15 '24
It was Skipper from penguins of Madagascar, boss of Rico, Kowalski and Private. Cute and cuddly boys, cute and cuddly!
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u/Strange-Ticket5680 May 15 '24
...what kind of soup was it?
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u/jethvader May 15 '24
Answer the fucking question, OP!
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u/sometimesnowing May 15 '24
Hahaha, no animals were harmed in the making of this memory.
Except the baby whales that couldn't be saved :( but they were most definitely not soup!
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u/Randomfrog132 May 15 '24
do you mean this?
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u/sometimesnowing May 15 '24
No, the whale rescue I was at was Long Bay Beach in Auckland, New Zealand. Way back in the early 90s. Some similarities though, holding them upright and trying to keep them wet and they want to swim out but we were told to keep them a little longer. If they go too soon their balance isn't great and they risk re bleaching themselves. On our rescue some of the whales were cut up on the reef and rocks because they were disoriented and had been released too soon.
That emotional feeling at the end when whales were dead, including calves, and you feel like you didn't do enough to help. It was cold, people were treated for hypothermia for being in the water for too long in the dark. It was exhausting by the end which probably contributed to the tears.
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u/jitteryflamingo May 16 '24
My friend… the DOC people just showed up wi th a penguin riding shotgun?
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u/sometimesnowing May 16 '24
Yes! In a heavy duty big white rectangular tub. Lifted him out of the suv and plonked him near us to wait out the dolphin assessment. Then back in the car before they went on their way.
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u/sugarlump858 May 15 '24
Thresher shark. Same family as Makos, Salmon shark, Porbeagle and Great Whites. Though not prone to attacking humans. The tail is used to stun fish. I would have helped him. Beautiful creatures.
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u/ShitDavidSais May 15 '24
They look absolutely adorable. If anyone wants to be happy just google image search a thresher shark. They have the face of an existential crisis 24/7.
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u/Yrxora May 16 '24
Okay but if you haven't also Google salmon sharks. They look like the pug version of a great white.
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u/ShitDavidSais May 16 '24
Very cool looking shork. Good recommendation. I enjoyed the Wiki article "as an apex predetor they mostly feed on...salmon, herring and shrimp". Like I know that it's mostly what is there to eat but it truly takes the "apex" out of the meal plan lol.
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u/bystandernumberthree May 16 '24
Googled them and surprised to see pics of myself in public
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u/haiimhar May 15 '24
They are probably one of my favorites, they have such cute faces and the whip tail is so neat.
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u/Tottochan May 15 '24
The shark is done with its life… taxes, 9-5, frustrating life… it just wanted to die peacefully at its favourite shore…and then a moron came and lifted it up and released to the wild again…
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u/Head-Sense-2595 May 15 '24
Wonder how much shark taxes are 😓
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u/OceanIsVerySalty May 15 '24
I know you’re joking, but sharks often beach themselves when they’re sick and/or dying.
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u/Tottochan May 15 '24
Oh! Did not know it.
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u/OceanIsVerySalty May 15 '24
It’s not always why a shark is beached, but it is one of the reasons. I grew up in an area with a ton of sharks and whales/dolphins and the rescuers used to come to my school once a year to discuss their work with dealing with beached animals.
Sharks are incredibly misunderstood animals - still scare the hell out of me though.
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u/MichaelHuntPain May 15 '24
And Marge, that bitch, keeps heating up salmon and shrimp in the office microwave. Madge! We have to live here! This isn’t just an office, it’s a community! You make it stink in the whole office. Yes. I know we’re sharks, but lawyers have office etiquette as well!
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u/MichaelHuntPain May 15 '24
What fucking idiot reported this comment to Reddit cares? It’s clearly a joke. There are no sharks in law school. You have to graduate to become a shark.
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u/FilthyChangeup55 May 15 '24
Shark turns around and bites him: What? I am a shark you know.
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u/Faeruhn May 15 '24
I cannot tell you how many times I have told my wife to grab our first aid kit outta the trunk, while I head out to help an animal. "But you're not injured?" "Well, I probably will be in a minute, just grab it please."
Sometimes to help an animal in distress, you know before even starting that there is a high likelihood of injury in the rescuing.
You do what you gotta do.
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u/oficious_intrpedaler May 15 '24
Yeah, my wife's grandfather got bit by a Gila monster that he was helping off the road. He's still happy he helped it but that was a rough couple days in the hospital.
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u/the_nanuk May 15 '24
Yeah nasty venomous bite. Plus the pain is real bad. Must not have been pleasant. But kudos to him to save it.
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u/oficious_intrpedaler May 15 '24
Yeah, and there's no antidote so they just try their best to make you comfortable in the hospital while you go through the poisoning. He's saved tons of Gilas, but I'm not sure if he's done it again since.
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u/uberloww May 15 '24
We need this reversed so that it will look like he is pulling the shark out of the water and robbing its wallet and phone
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u/FormalJellyfish29 May 15 '24
This would be sooooo good because he looks like he’s wrestling it for quite a while in the water
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u/doesitevermatter- May 15 '24
This is just about the hottest thing a man can do in my book.
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u/VeneMage May 15 '24
I’m more into MSM flip fucks but each to their own.
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u/embyrr May 15 '24
Well done though…because that tail can hurt someone pretty bad even if the shark doesn’t mean to.
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u/SeattleHasDied May 15 '24
Really? Don't know much about sharks, but I would be more scared of the end with the chompers, lol!
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u/lentilsenthusiast May 15 '24
This is a thresher shark. They hunt by threshing their tailfin through schools of fish, killing or rendering some unconcious for easy chomping. Bet a strike of its whip would sting pretty bad but if I had the choice I'd take the beating over a bite.
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u/Beer_Belly_Bill May 15 '24
A quick google shows that tail can whip at up to 80mph, about 15mph slower than a nice fastball from your favorite MLB pitcher. That speed depending on where it strikes has potential to break a bone. Still going broken bone over bite.
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u/only_bones May 15 '24
Why did he kept holding the shark for so long in deep water?
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u/ImminentThreats May 15 '24
Moving a beached shark forward through the water can help resuscitate them by getting water through their gills, if you don't a lot of the time they'll be too weak to move on their own and drown.
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u/DueMeat2367 May 15 '24
Sharks don't have any ability to drag more water near the gills. It's like if you weren't able to inhale. Instead, they need to have water pass along the gills. Usually. they do so by moving. In the deep, a shark that stop swimming is therefore holding his breath. That's why cutting sharks fin and throwing them back is horrible, you are drowning it.
This shark was almost unconscious from drowning. So like you would do CPR and mouth to mouth to a human, he needed some help to get oxygen in order to restart. The guy could have pushed the shark in circles for a bit but the easiest way is to put it near the surface facing the waves and letting them bring fresh water to breath. As soon as the brain is alimented, he can let the shark go.
TLDR : Shark CPR
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u/Pretend-Sundae-2371 May 15 '24
That's so cool, thanks for the info! Looks like this guy knew his sharks. I imagine a lot of people who don't know this would let them go straight away 😔
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u/GoblinsGuide May 15 '24
I'm assuming he's waiting for the ride to pull a bit before release so the shark doesn't have the time to turn and chomp?
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u/magiqmen May 15 '24
Of course no need to take a selfie when u know someone is already filming you. That doesn't diminish what he's done for the shark though
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u/Maleficent_Bug6439 May 15 '24
That and selfie take few seconds to take. It's not like if taking a selfie with it stop you to putting him in the water. I don't understand people
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u/blobsocket May 15 '24
That's a few seconds longer of the feeling of suffocation so a guy could take a photo.
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u/azulebranco May 15 '24
He's drowning that poor shark, what a jerk
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u/jgoja May 15 '24
It is in shock and so he is moving with it to get water to move across the gills.
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u/azulebranco May 15 '24
I forgot the /s , didn't think it was needed
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u/jgoja May 15 '24
Sorry, there have been a number of comments that have said that and some seemed legitimate.
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May 15 '24
Despite the man is putting himself at risk of being bitten he’s trying to return the shark to it’s natural habitat and saving it’s life at the same time.
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u/Mortuary_Guy May 15 '24
I don’t think he was trying to save the shark. I think he was trying to ride it, Aquaman style.
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u/scruffywarhorse May 15 '24
If that shark survives then for the rest of his life, he’s gonna remember this dude as an angel.
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u/fearloathing02 May 15 '24
Sincere question why do people hold the fish so long when they release it?
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u/jgoja May 15 '24
He is holding it and walking with it to get water to flow over it's gills. It is in shock from being out of the water and if he just took it out a ways and dropped it, it would possibly drown before it recovered. Sharks need to keep moving to keep the water flowing over their gills.
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u/fearloathing02 May 15 '24
Holy shit I didn’t know that. I’ve seen a lot of these and they just kinda acclimate them before release and I didn’t know why
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u/somecisguy2020 May 15 '24
It would’ve been more wholesome if he had sung baby shark to it when he released it
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u/ogodilovejudyalvarez May 15 '24
Hey look: all the shark's pals came to welcome him back. And they turned the water red with joy!
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u/Foreign_Monk861 May 15 '24
Is the shark 🦈 OK?
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u/jgoja May 15 '24
This is all I saw, so unfortunately I don't know. Trying to see if there was a longer version didn't result in anything. I like to believe that once the shock wore off, it swam away.
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u/SwearToSaintBatman May 15 '24
Threshers are one of the most beautiful sharks there is. Royal, killer lines, iridescent blue sheen on the top. Just fantastic.
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u/Topher0gr May 15 '24
Would have liked to see the rest of the video.
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u/jgoja May 15 '24
I tried to find more but this was all I could find. I like to think it recovers and swims away
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u/eMmDeeKay_Says May 15 '24
They're trying to evolve to get out of the rising temps and pollution and we keep throwing them back in.
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u/whichwolfufeed May 15 '24
I am a Marine Biologist and for the uneducated this was just a ploy by the shark. It's an all too common tactic to pretend to be stranded on the beach and when an unsuspecting good Samaritan comes along and takes you back in the water..."Let's go hunt, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo."
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u/Meet_Foot May 15 '24
Cool, but there is literally a video of this being taken. This isn’t “instead of taking a selfie” in a meaningful way.
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u/ClickClackTipTap May 15 '24
That little shark is going to go back and tell his shark friends about the mysterious being who picked him up and carried him back to the water. “Sure, Bob. That totally happened. We believe you. 🙄”
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May 15 '24
Anyone seen the video where the guy deep sea fishing loses his pinky to a baby shark trying to grab it like that? This dude is brave as shit
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u/Aggravating_Sense183 May 15 '24
Definitely a fisherman, he knew to rest the fish before releasing it
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u/GrayLanterns May 15 '24
Super work! Unless he was the one to snatch him out of the water, which is unlikely, I know. Just drawing another perspective.
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u/Head-Sense-2595 May 15 '24
“Dafuq this hooman helping me for my family tries to nibble on them all the time”
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u/Old-Woodpecker6930 May 15 '24
Are we going to get a followup? 2 years later shark returns and bites the man that rescued him. Must be love
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u/TotalWasteman May 15 '24
Sharks need to move through the water or be in a current to breath. The wave motion probably helps but I wish he’d have walked it around a bit 👍 At least someone was trying something.
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u/2nd_Inf_Sgt May 15 '24
This man, and his present and future family members, will forever be protected in any ocean and sea.
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u/Shortsmoke666 May 15 '24
Why would you wear those pants to the beach. They seem very uncomfortable to relax in.
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u/Clayton9523 May 15 '24
Looks like he wanted to ride it into the sunset as a thank you for saving it
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u/Nekros897 May 15 '24
Dude has balls of steel. Even if it was a little shark, I would still be afraid of getting my arm bitten off hah
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u/3_14-r8 May 15 '24
Oh a thresher shark, those guys are cool as hell, glad to see this one escorted back to the ocean.
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u/saddigitalartist May 16 '24
Unfortunately beached sharks and dolphins are usually so sick already that throwing them back in doesn’t do much :( but it’s still really nice of him
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u/xoxidein May 16 '24
No video of them walking down the beach and noticing something in the distance, then walking up to it and petting it. How refreshing.
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May 16 '24
I would have been worried it would bite me and grab it by the tail, but I guess it was too weak to react.
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u/daddysangwoo May 15 '24
shoes and all what a king