The 'Jaws-dropping' moment a thrill seeker tries to grab a shark by the tail and immediately gets bitten
- Two men tried to pull shark that was hooked on a fishing a line toward shore
- Video shows one of the men trying to grab it's tail at Wrightsville Beach
- He was unsuccessful and tried again, but the small tiger shark bites his hand
- The roughly 4-foot-long shark was eventually pulled near the shore and had the hook removed before it was released back into the ocean
The unsurprising moment a shark bites a man after he tried to grab it by the tail was caught on video.
Footage shows two men trying to pull the small tiger shark that was hooked on a fishing line towards the shore near Johnnie Mercer's pier in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina on June 29.
The short clip shows one of the men trying to grab the shark's tail, but he was unsuccessful and it was able to swim a short distance away.
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Footage shows two men trying to pull the small tiger shark that was hooked on a line towards the shore near Johnnie Mercer's pier in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina on June 29 (scene above)
The short clip shows one of the men trying to grab the shark's tail (scene above), but he was unsuccessful and it was able to swim a short distance away
The man then tries again to grab the the small tiger shark, but the shark had other plans and viciously bites the man on his hand.
Blood can be seen gushing into the ocean water as the man retreats back to shore.
The man quickly exited the water holding his injury.
The roughly 4-foot-long shark was eventually pulled near the shore and had the hook removed before it was released back into the ocean, according to WWAY.
The man then tries again to grab the the small tiger shark, but the shark had other plans and viciously bites the man on his hand. Blood can be seen gushing into the ocean water as the man retreats back to shore (scene above)
'Sharks are wild animals and so we definitely don't want to be messing around with any wild animal,' educator Gail Lemiec from the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher told WWAY.
There's no information about the man's injuries.
When emergency officials arrived to the pier, the man had already disappeared.
So far, in 2017 there have been 26 reported shark attacks in the United States.
Eighteen of them occurred in Florida and one in Hawaii.
Last month, a woman in Concord, North Carolina lost her arm to a huge shark while snorkeling.
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