This week, while fishing rod and reel, my husband had a lengthy encounter with a thresher shark. It appeared to be a juvenile, about 6 feet, with an additional 3-foot tail fin.

This week, while fishing rod and reel, my husband had a lengthy encounter with a thresher shark. It appeared to be a juvenile, about 6 feet, with an additional 3-foot tail fin.

A vulnerable thresher shark got stuck Monday afternoon on Rockaway Beach, but a fearless beachgoer was able to drag the struggling fish back to the safety of its home in the deep.

When a thresher shark attacks, it doesn’t lunge in teeth-first. Instead, it approaches a school of fish, lowers its head, flexes its body and thwaps its whiplike tail over its head.

A giant 11ft thresher shark was found dead on Par Beach in Cornwall by a dog walker on New Year's ... More Day. On New Year’s Day, the body of a male 4.25m (13.9 feet) thresher shark washed up ...