North Carolina Aquariums and the Georgia Aquarium came together to transport two sand tiger sharks across the state.
The move began at the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher, where staff secured a female weighing 282 pounds and a male weighing 165 pounds into a special cargo net, the North Carolina Dept. of Natural and Cultural Resources shared on Wednesday.
They then loaded the sharks using a telehandler — a machine that’s like a hybrid of a forklift and a crane — onto a vehicle with a mobile aquarium.
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