Love sharks or hate 'em, it's hard not to root for the baby salmon shark shown during a rescue attempt in the accompanying video, after the junior apex predator had washed onto the beach in moderate surf next to Pacifica Pier near San Francisco.
Shark Divers on Wednesday posted an item, with the video, stating that salmon shark pups occasionally strand off Northern California and are often misidentified as white sharks.
Unfortunately, Shark Divers CEO Patric Douglas said Thursday that a salmon shark of similar size -- perhaps the same specimen -- washed up dead the next day farther down the beach.
-- Pete Thomas
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