Scuba diver labelled 'a hero' for removing fish netting from jaws of distressed shark

[Judi Lynn]

ABC North Coast By Donna Harper and Joanne Shoebridge
Updated 14 minutes ago

A scuba diving instructor from Byron Bay is being labelled 'a hero' for risking his life to save a distressed grey nurse shark in a marine park off northern New South Wales.

Inaki Aizpun received the Hero to Animals Award from the activist group PETA for removing a discarded fishing net from between the jaws of the two-metre shark a few weeks ago.

Mr Aizpun was taking a group of people scuba-diving off Julian Rocks when he noticed the distressed shark.

On closer inspection, he saw a rope and net caught in the grey nurse's mouth.

More:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-07/scuba-diver-labelled-a-hero-for-removing-fish-netting-from-jaws/10214590

[Glamrock]

1. There ya go!

Much better!

[pansypoo53219]

2. gotta clean the ocean. lakes, shores, roads, the planet.

[Delphinus]

3. Looks

like some teeth came out with the net - or perhaps it was part of what the net picked up ... at any rate, grateful he could do this. And that he said the shark came back to thank him.