Marine experts off Sydney, Australia, made a daring, first-of-its-kind rescue to save a grey nurse shark being choked to death by an elastic cord that somehow got wrapped around its gills and was acting like a noose. 
 
 The challenge was that rescue divers needed to capture the shark, belonging to the most critically endangered shark species, and bring it to the surface. 
 
 “When you’re dealing with a wild animal like this anything can happen,” Rob Townsend of SeaLife sanctuary and aquarium told 7News Sydney. “Their teeth are always on display and they are very sharp.” 
 
 How would they capture the shark? 7News Sydney has video detailing the procedure and amazing rescue: 
 
 The grey nurse shark was spotted off Magic Point, known as critical shark habitat. The shark’s labored breathing was a sign it was slowly dying. 
 
 A team of divers and a veterinarian from SeaLife used a clear-plastic shark sock and coaxed the shark into it. The see-through characteristics of the massive sock resulted in other sharks entering, too. 
 
 Once in the sock, the injured shark was wrestled into a special stretcher and taken to the surface, where vet Rob Jones cut away the suffocating cord and gave the shark a shot of antibiotics to prevent infection. 
 
 “If we hadn’t intervened, I have no doubt it would have died, the elastic would have kept cutting deeper and deeper into the neck,” Jones told 7News Sydney. 
 
 The shark swam away, and though the wound looks pretty bad, officials said it should heal in a month or so. 
 
 Only an estimated 1,500 of the grey nurse sharks remain off the Australian coast, so saving one is certainly a commendable act. 
 
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– Australian divers got up close and personal with a grey nurse shark that was in desperate need of saving last week in a "first-of-its-kind" rescue caught on tape, via 7News Sydney, picked up by GrindTV. Somehow the young female shark—spotted breathing heavily in a shark habitat off Sydney—had managed to get an elastic band wrapped around her body. The band acted like a noose, slowly killing the shark as it pressed in on her gills. That's when a vet team swam into action, wrestling the shark into a clear plastic "sock" that could bring her to the surface—"the first time that we've run this kind of operation in the wild," a SeaLife sanctuary worker said. "When you're dealing with a wild animal like this anything can happen," he added, noting, "Their teeth are always on display and they are very sharp." At the surface, however, a vet was able to cut the cord, which left a nasty wound and had probably been there for some time. After an antibiotic shot, the shark went freely on her way and should be fully healed in a month or so, 7News reports. "If we hadn't intervened, I have no doubt it would have died, the elastic would have kept cutting deeper and deeper into the neck," the vet said. Click to read about another shark rescue; this one was choking ... on moose.