MANZANITA, Ore. — A shark washed up on the beach in Manzanita, and a local beachgoer, noticing it was in distress, did what many wouldn’t dare: She grabbed the shark and pulled it back out into deeper waters herself.

“There was nobody around to ask for help, so I just made the quick decision to get him back into the deep Pacific Ocean,” Colleen Dunn said.

Dunn told KGW she went for a walk on the beach at sunset with her dogs last month when she noticed the shark.

“Probably about 15 feet in front of me, I saw something that looked like driftwood and then, I noticed it was moving,” Dunn said.

When she got closer, she noticed it was in trouble.

“This poor guy was just in distress,” Dunn said. “I could just tell he still had life to live. It was like he was gasping for air when I walked u

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