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Incredible footage has resurfaced to show a deadly mako shark wriggling and thrashing around after getting stuck onto a family boat.
The tense moment was captured by fishermen sailing off the coast of Long Island, New York in 2017.
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NewsflareIn the horror footage, the mako shark can be seen trapped beneath the guard rail on the deck after it leapt onto the boat.
A terrified woman onboard can be heard screaming as she says: “Oh my god, that’s a mako [shark]!
“He jumped on the boat.”
The huge predator then thrashes and writhes around in a desperate attempt to free itself – but fails to do so.
It then reaches back and bites the railing trapping it, hurting itself and causing blood to spew from its mouth.
The vessel’s crew rack their brains to come up with a plan to free the wild animal.
But the deadly creature grows angrier.
Eventually, one of the fishermen, Captain Don Law, thinks of a plan to save the shark’s life.
He can be heard making a famous reference to the iconic shark film Jaws.
“We’re gonna need a bigger boat,” he exclaims while trying to set the shark free.
The captain ties a rope around its tail, while another crew member hooks its mouth with a fishing line.
They then try to put the shark down and point it towards the water – all while keeping its head facing away from the people.
The crew eventually manages to lower the deadly predator into the water before cutting the rope to release it.
It comes after a lone orca whale mauled a great white shark to death in an “unprecedented” attack.
The killer whale was captured obliterating the predator off the coast of Mossel Bay in South Africa.
The orca whale can be seen dragging a great white shark before ripping its organs out.
Experts said the whale “gripped the left pectoral fin of the shark and thrust forward with the shark several times before eventually eviscerating it”.
The orca soon reappeared with “a bloody piece of peach-coloured liver in its mouth”.
While orcas have previously been known for attacking sharks and other whales, their attacks have always been in groups – and have taken more than a couple of hours to finish.
But on this occasion, it took just one killer whale to maul the great white shark – and within just two minutes.
The great white shark was believed to be a juvenile that weighed around 100kg and measured 2.5m.
The unusual event has now been documented in the African Journal of Marine Science.
Dr Alison Towner, from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, described the attack as “unprecedented” and “astonishing”.
Mako sharks
MAKOS are open-ocean predators that are usually found in deep water areas.
These deadly can grow up to 15 feet long and can weigh up to 140kg.
They can live to be over 30 years old. They mature slowly, and female mako sharks aren’t able to reproduce until they’re around 19 years old.
Makos are the fastest sharks in the sea – they can reach speeds of up to 60mph.
They typically stalk their prey from below before swimming up to attack them and have been known to leap up to 30 feet out of the water.
Makos are warm-blooded creatures and usually feed larger fish, squid, mackerel, tuna, bonitos and swordfish.
They are a rare species of predatory sharks that belong to the mackerel family
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