“
A great experience
”: an oyster farmer from Gujan-Mestras found himself on Tuesday, December 27, facing a blue shark more than two meters tall, trapped in the low waters of the Arcachon basin, and helped him to regain the ocean.
“
I was going to my oyster farm when I heard big splashes and there I saw the fin
,” said Cyril Foucaud on Wednesday, who posted a video of this unexpected encounter on his Facebook account.
The shark, of a size "
between two meters and two meters forty
" according to his estimates, was struggling in "
15 cm of water
", by ebb tide, on the coast of the tourist peninsula of Cap Ferret at the level of the village of L'Herbe.
The "
instinct
" to save this "
beautiful beast
" which is not considered dangerous, imposed itself, confided the 37-year-old oyster farmer to AFP.
"
You shouldn't think too much in these cases, otherwise you won't do anything
."
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“
I grabbed him by the tail, he tried to bite but he was tired and he must have understood that we meant him no harm.
He calmed down.
Fortunately, otherwise it would have been another fight!
“, explained Mr. Foucaud, who says he caressed it.
A fellow oyster farmer equipped with high boots then took it upon himself to drag him towards slightly deeper water, as evidenced by the video posted by Cyril Foucaud and taken up on Wednesday morning by the Sud-Ouest newspaper.
“
We know that there are blueskins (another name for this species) not far away, but of this size and so far inside the basin, in the oyster beds, it's unheard of.
We rather see specimens of about one meter near the passes (marine entrance and exit corridors of the Basin on the Atlantic Ocean side)
”, he assured.
