SHARK STRANDED IN SOUTH KOREAN CANAL DRAWS 600,000 VISITORS AS RESCUE BID FAILS
NEWS Desk Global
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A shark stranded in a canal in the South Korean port of Busan has become the country's latest wildlife sensation, with the city saying about 600,000 people have flocked to see it over the past two weeks. The 3.5-metre (11.48-ft) shark was first spotted in a narrow waterway in North Port on September 18.
As the days passed without the shark finding its way back to the ocean, authorities launched a rescue operation on Tuesday to guide it out, but the effort failed. The Coast Guard and other agencies deployed vessels to spray jets of water behind the shark to gently propel it toward the open ocean, but it swam away from the streams, according to videos published by Yonhap News Television.
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