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A woman was walking her dogs on an Oregon<\/a> beach when she saw a small shark struggling.<\/p>\n It was lucky timing for the salmon shark, which was suffocating in a low tide area near the shoreline.<\/p>\n \u201cI was essentially nervous about touching it at all,\u201d Colleen Dunn, wrote in a text message Wednesday. “I have three kids so I didn\u2019t wanna put myself in a dangerous position.\u201d<\/p>\n At first, she thought it was a baby great white.<\/p>\n Dunn called her husband at an office at Nehalem Bay State Park for advice, but got no answer. So, with her dogs waiting patiently, she grabbed the 3-foot (1-meter) shark by the tail and rushed it to deeper water while taking a video of it on her phone.<\/p>\n The shark was able to push water through its gills once again, and then swam out of view.<\/p>\n Dunn says she posted about the encounter last month on a local social media group, and nobody reported the shark washing back up on shore. She used to live in Hawaii<\/a> and recently moved her family to Manzanita, Oregon, near the park where she saw the shark. The ocean and the creatures in it give her a sense of belonging, she said.<\/p>\n