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You never know what you\u2019re going to encounter when you\u2019re taking a stroll along the beach. One woman who was walking her dogs near the ocean in Oregon got quite a surprise when she spotted a shark that had washed up on the shore, and she pulled out her phone to chronicle her successful effort to return it to the waters where it came from.<\/p>\n
Oregon boasts approximately 360 miles of coastline that overlooks the Pacific Ocean, and those waters are home to around fifteen different species of sharks.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not a major hotbed for those animals compared to other parts of the country, and there have only been 31 recorded attacks on humans<\/a> since the Global Shark Attack File started keeping tabs in 1958 (a woman who was killed after the fishing boat she was on capsized 200 miles off the coast in 1975 represents the only fatality).<\/p>\n All of those incidents fall under the \u201cunprovoked\u201d umbrella, and while a woman who recently encountered a beached shark at Nehalem Bay State Park would have fallen into the \u201cprovoked\u201d column if she\u2019d been bitten while trying to assist it, she thankfully avoided that fate while coming to its aid.<\/p>\n A woman in Oregon filmed herself staging a fairly dramatic rescue after encountering a shark that had washed up on the beach<\/p>\n On October 10th, Colleen Dunn headed to Nelham Bay State Park (located around 60 miles west of Portland) with her two dogs as the sun was setting in the hopes she\u2019d be able to find some sand dollars on the beach.<\/p>\n