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Australian Dad Lets 11-Year-Old Rescue a Great White Shark

“To be honest, I did have some thoughts about: ‘Oh, why am I going out here?’”

An Australian dad allowed his 11-year-old son to come face-to-face with a great white shark that had become stranded in shallow water. Tourist Nash Core spotted three men attempting to push the shark back into deeper water after it had become stranded on a sandbank off the coast of Ardrossan in South Australia. Core, from Gold Coast in Queensland, decided to film the rescue effort with a drone before wading in with his son to help. “To be honest, I did have some thoughts about: ‘Oh, why am I going out here?’” Core told the Associated Press of the incident. “As we were going out, my young son, Parker, turned to me and said: ‘My heart’s pounding.’ I said: ‘Yeah, mine’s beating pretty fast, too.’” Together, the group gradually pushed the shark into deeper water and stayed with the predator until it slowly worked up the strength to swim away. “It was either sick or… just tired,” Core said. “We definitely got it into some deeper water, so hopefully it’s swimming still.”