Owner of Aliwal Shoal Adventures, Emil Pirzenthal received a call from a Blue Oceans Dive Resort boat crew who first spotted the whale carcass at about 07:00 on Saturday, 22 August.
“It was heading towards public beaches and into the Scottburgh sharks nets, so I grabbed an old trawler anchor and thick rope, phoned two photographers and headed out to it,” he said.
“It was slightly north of Greenpoint. I wrapped the rope around its tail to tow it, because I didn’t want us to lose any sharks in the nets, like the 14 tigers that died last year in a similar incident.
"I was a bit worried about getting in the water with about 20 tiger sharks, two great whites of about 4.5m and 3.5m and too many duskies and Zambezis to count."
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