THIS is the heroic moment a mother pulls a fishing hook out of a shark’s jaws in North Carolina.
Wild footage shows a mum at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina carefully removing a wire from the mouth of a beached shark using pliers.
She bravely pins down the animal between her legs and attempts to free it.
The shark wriggles around in discomfort as the she fearlessly grabs its mouth with her bare hands.
Video captures the beachgoer using pliers to pull the hook out of the it’s jaws.
She calms down the shark and helps it return to the water.
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Bystanders watched in shock as the ordeal unfolded.
The courageous moment was captured on video by Olivia Talbot in Cape Hatteras on July 4.
Talbot said that the woman and her family were fishing in the area when the shark caught the bait and ran them about 200 yards down the beach.
A crowd then gathered to watch as the family pulled the shark to shore and tried to get the hook out of its mouth.
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Talbot said: “To my knowledge, this specific shark is nearly classified as endangered, so she worked as quickly as possible to unhook it.”
“She released him quickly after.”
Shark fishing is legal in the state of Florida, but is strictly regulated by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to protect apex predator populations.
Some species of sharks are legally required to be released back into the water, according to guidelines outlined by North Carolina Marine Fisheries.
The brave beachgoer was lucky to not be injured helping the shark, after a spate of shark attacks in America this summer.
On September 21, a great white shark was caught on camera tearing apart a helpless victim at Great Point Beach in Nantucket, Massachusetts,Â
Terrifying footage captured the surrounding water turn blood red, as the predator’s ripped apart the swimmer.
In August, a 71-year-old veteran lifeguard was yanked six feet beneath the waves in a terrifying suspected great white shark encounter.Â
The drama unfolded at Scarborough Beach State Park in Maine, where Greg Wilfert has worked as a lifeguard for more than five decades.
He said: “There’s no fish that’s going to do that.
“It has to be a big fish or a shark. It had to be the shark.”
John Schweizer, a 69-year-old dad from Connecticut, was dragged underwater by shark on July 24 off the coast of the Bahamas.
The devastating attack happened in front of his wife and sons while on a family adventure cruise for the parents’ 40th wedding anniversary.