Wednesday night Kevin Keun and Jack Heugh decided to go wet a line for edibles at Gonubie mouth, however there were too many surfers there.  It was then decided to go round to what is known as Black Rock. There they found a crowd of people standing and watching something in one of the nearby gullies.  Kevin and Jack found a Thresher Shark had washed up but was still, albeit barely, alive.  Kevin and Jack didn’t even bother to unload their tackle and went straight into the water, at times up to waist deep in the sea, and for 45 minutes attempted to revive and re-swim the shark.  The shark was still head shaking and its tail was still whipping but with every attempt the shark got washed back onto the rocks.  Numerous attempts were made to contact various authorities and eventually Miss  Tinley, from the EL Aquarium, arrived.  Miss Tinley made the call that the shark was beyond help as the shark had various bad bleeding abrasions on its body and that it was noted that the shark was bleeding from its gills.  Shaun Freitag came to the assistance with is LDV and the shark was winched up onto the beach.  Miss Tinley wanted to avoid that anybody started cutting parts off the shark for trophies.  The aquarium removed the shark from the beach so that they could do an autopsy and do tests on the shark to find out the cause of death.   May it here be noted that the shark had no hooks in its mouths.  The shark measured 190cm PCL and the tail’s total length was amazing 198cm on its own.  This making this Thresher Shark a total length of 388cm.