A Connecticut couple’s scuba diving trip on Monday turned into a rescue mission when they spotted a baby shark trapped in work gloves on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.
Deb and Steve Dauphinais, of Glastonbury, Ct., were diving on a sandbar in Jamestown, Rhode Island, when Deb first saw the 16-inch creature stuck in about 35 inches of water.
At first, Deb – who has been a diving instructor for almost 30 years – thought she was too late, and that the shark was already dead.
But then she saw the shark moving slightly, and she motioned for her husband to come swim next to her.
“He came in and did a double take himself,” he told the Associated Press.
She said she and her husband then pulled the gloves off – but they seemed to be sucked into the shark’s head.
The 16-inch-long creature was stuck in about 35 inches of water.AP
However, in the end, they were able to free him.
Deb said that neither she nor Steve were afraid of being attacked by what appeared to be a juvenile Dogfish, but were still cautious in case it broke.
“It was like seeing the two of us, not seeing all the injuries, getting his balance back and then swimming back to where he was supposed to be,” he said.
Debra Dauphinais has experience saving sea creatures in the past. Deb Dauphinais/Facebook
But it wasn’t the first time Deb was able to save a sea creature.
A few years ago, he said, he freed a black sea bream that had been caught on discarded fishing line.
“There are many stories of underwater sea creatures being killed by underwater trash,” he said.
Deb and her husband Steve both enjoy scuba diving. Deb Dauphinais/Facebook
“It’s an ongoing issue that’s near and dear to my heart, but this is the only time I can save something – at least a shark like that.”
According to the Marine Mammal Center, increasing amounts of trash will end up in the ocean “creating the threat of entanglement or ingestion for countless marine animals.”
Nearly 1,800 endangered marine animals have been eaten or become entangled in plastic since 2009, according to a 2020 report cited by CBS News.
Deb has been a diving instructor for almost 30 years. Deb Dauphinais/Facebook
Even the Great Blue Hole – a giant marine sinkhole in the Caribbean off the coast of Belize that is largely unexplored due to a lack of equipment – was recently found littered with two liter Coke bottles that had reached 407 feet. in, as well as a missing GoPro camera full of someone’s vacation photos.
With Postal wire.
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