Video shows her carrying it with one arm and releasing it into the ocean.
A woman was walking her dogs on an Oregon beach when she saw a small shark struggling.
It was lucky timing for the salmon shark, which was suffocating in a low tide area near the shoreline.
“I was essentially nervous about touching it at all,” Colleen Dunn, wrote in a text message Wednesday. “I have three kids so I didn’t wanna put myself in a dangerous position.”
At first, she thought it was a baby great white.
Dunn called her husband at an office at Nehalem Bay State Park for advice, but got no answer.