The heart warming story behind this shark wrestling video
A real estate agent has become an overnight internet sensation, after wrestling a shark and removing it from a rock pool in Cronulla, in Sydney’s south.
Melissa Hatheier was going for a swim early Monday morning when she noticed the slippery customer had found its way into the popular rock pool.
“I got home from the gym, and my gorgeous mum who swims every morning down here in the rock pool rang and said this there is a shark in the pool,” she told Channel 9’s Today show.
“And I said, OK don’t worry, I will come down. So I came down, there was a bit of a crew down here, and had a look and he was a little Port Jackson and was doing laps of the pool and I said, you know I’m going to go in and check him out.
“I jumped in and I thought, ‘I reckon I can probably get him out.’ And Mum, god love her, called 000 so the police came down as well.
“And they didn’t know what to do. So I said, I think I can just grab him. So I herded him into the shallows and then I just sort of got on my knees. With his fins, I picked him up and helped him back.
“He was getting stressed because he was bumping into the rocks and I was thinking I just need to put him back where he is meant to be.”
A heart warming family story explains Hatheier’s heroics.
“You know what, I lost my beautiful dad nearly a year ago, to cancer,” she said. “The last thing he said is, ‘Please look after Mum. So we are looking after Mum. I made sure the pool was safe and she can swim.”
Have you seen this video before? Were you aware of the touching story behind it?
Hero image credit: Facebook / Cronulla Real Estate
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