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Yeah, it was, but it had been caught earlier and released, so it was having a little trouble recovering.
The little kid got to wade in waist-high and toss the shark deeper into the ocean. It was definitely struggling in the shallow surf.

Ah, gotcha. Did it swim away like a happy shark?

It was hard to tell, as the kid lobbed it out into the surf. I stayed quite a bit longer, until after the sun went down, and I never saw the sand shark wash up to shore again. So, hopefully it was ok.

That's good :)
They can be pretty resilient