{"id":342430,"date":"2025-12-30T08:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342430\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:03:07","slug":"baby-shark-rescuer-saves-lives-at-his-brighton-hatchery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342430\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby shark rescuer saves lives at his Brighton hatchery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While speaking to BBC South East, Mr Reale found a live catshark on Brighton Beach mid-interview and was able to rescue it, nurse it back to strength and return it to the sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2023, he found a live egg case on Brighton beach, which he hatched at Brighton Watersports and then released the baby shark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His video documenting this hatching has had 1.3 million views on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said catshark egg cases can wash up during stormy weather and that young sharks that have been caught and released can become disoriented and strand on beaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Reale said, so far, there have been three sharks sucessfully reared and released and 200 cuttlefish saved at the Brighton Watersports hatchery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While speaking to BBC South East, Mr Reale found a live catshark on Brighton Beach mid-interview and was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-342430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}