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A wild video captured by a Florida local showed a shark being casually transported handing from the back of a truck on a freeway.
Seeing birds while driving home from work might be expected, but a shark? Not so much. One Florida resident however was left startled to see a whole shark attached to the back of a vehicle ahead while driving down the Interstate 95 in Hollywood, Florida.
The highway shark was caught on video
The Florida driver captured the strange encounter on video on Tuesday, featuring the blue shark strapped into the tailgate of a driving truck. Half of the shark however was left unable to fit and ultimately hanging off the back.
After documenting the bizarre moment, the resident sent the video to WPLG Local 10. The outlet posted the clip to its YouTube channel with over 700k subscribers.
According to Local 10, the man who took the video estimated the shark to be nine or 10 feet long. He also said he believed it could be a bull shark.
Florida’s rules on shark fishing
In Florida, shark fishing is legal, but only for certain sharks and there are limits on how many and how fishers should harvest the shark.
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, fishers are allowed to harvest only one shark per day. If fishing from a vessel, the limit is two sharks per vessel each day.
There’s a long list however of prohibited shark species that are not allowed to be harvested and should be released immediately back into the water. That list includes hammerhead sharks and tiger sharks.
“Prohibited shark species must remain in the water with the gills submerged when fishing from shore or from a vessel, and prohibited shark species must be released without delay when fishing from the shore. If hook removal will delay the release, cut the hook or the leader as close to the hook as possible,” reports the commission.
Even shark species that are allowed to be harvested have rules around which ones can be, with minimum size limits on various species.
Other shark videos online
Unsurprisingly, sharks often find themselves the main star of viral videos online.
Last month, drone footage of a shark coming scarily close to paddleboarders went viral on YouTube. The footage, as reported here at HITC, captured a shark swimming alongside a young boogie boarder, who was blissfully unaware of the animal behind it.
The shark in the video also came close, and even underneath, surfers riding waves in the Southern California sea.
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