Kicker: A sunset rescue

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NICK EICHER, HOST: A woman out for a sunset walk on an Oregon beach saw something strange in the sand: Audio from TV station KGW:

DUNN: Probably about like 15 feet in front of me, I saw something that looked like driftwood, and then I noticed it was moving.

She drew closer and realized it was a shark, gasping for oxygen and now thrashing around, trying to get back into the water.

DUNN: I had seen enough Shark Week to know… if you can grab them by the tail, they can't reach back and bite you.

And surely hoping her memory was right.

So, she did grab the shark by the tail and dragged him back into surf. Experts thought the shark suffered cold shock and that knocked him off course. In any event, course corrected, and this shark week, it was the shark needing the rescue.

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