A live shark was found coasting the waters at a condominium pool in Hypoluxo, Florida, according to the Sun Sentinel.

Nicole Bonk was visiting friends at the Mariner’s Cay condo when she saw two boys carrying and dumping a five-foot blacktip shark in the pool at around 11 p.m., local time. The shark appeared to have had hooks in its mouth.⁽¹⁾

Seeing the shark was in poor shape, Bonk and her husband captured the creature and freed it at the Intracoastal Waterway, so it could flush out the chlorine from the pool. However, Bonk is dubious that the shark survived.⁽¹⁾

“We tried to revive him but he mostly likely did not live,” she told sources. “He was barely moving after the trauma. We did our best to try to save this creature.”⁽¹⁾

She contacted the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to report the incident, but authorities did not arrive until the next morning.

“These two kids, they came back from fishing and threw this half-dead creature into the pool as a prank,” she said. “They left the shark in the pool to die. I think they’re terrible children because it’s animal cruelty.”⁽¹⁾

Blacktip sharks often lurk in coastal South Florida where they are recognized for biting people, usually by accident. The shark has been listed as “Near Threatened” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature because of over fishing and the species’ low reproduction rates.⁽²⁾

The Wildlife Commission is collecting evidence from security cameras surrounding the pool, reports the Sun Sentinel.

Sources include:

(1) Sun-Sentinel.com

(2) TheEpochTimes.com