Newfie Performs Heimlich Maneuver on Shark Choking on a Moose

This story has everything. An alert Newfie. A Choking Shark. Moose Body Parts. Heroic rescue of a fish that is too stupid to eat.

From the DailyMail here:

A shark was rescued from a certain death after it had bitten off a bit more than he could chew. The Greenland shark was spotted choking on a two-foot long chunk of moose in a harbour in Norris Arm North, Newfoundland.

Derrick Chaulk and Jeremy Ball saw the 8ft animal and saved it by pulling the moose out of its mouth.

Mr Chaulk was the first to arrive at the scene and first thought the Greenland shark was a beached whale.
Upon closer inspection he realised what it was and saw that the shark was still alive, the moose sticking out of its mouth.

‘The moose had the fur and all the liner on it – it was about two feet long,‘ Mr Chaulk told CBS Canada. ‘He swallowed and got it halfway down and couldn’t cough it back up and couldn’t get it all down, and then I think the tide brought him in.’

Mr Ball joined in and began pulling at the moose, which came out after a few tugs, and together they dragged the shark out into deeper water. After a few minutes, the shark started breathing and swum out into deeper water half-an-hour later to applause from the crowd that had gathered on the bank to follow its plight.

The greenland shark is the only shark that is native to Arctic waters and it really doesn’t do very much. It barely swims, doesn’t have much in the way of teeth, and mostly subsists on rotting fish and other bottom scum. Pretty much the Spongebob of the shark world. Not surprising to me that it will try to choke to death on a Bullwinkle.