Road worker Antonio Carrillo was driving to his job site one morning last week along the coast of Fuengirola in southern Spain when he spotted a large animal that appeared to be stranded and struggling on the beach. Being an animal-lover, he decided to risk arriving to his job a little late to see if there was anything he could do to help it.

Little did he know that he would soon be playing accidental obstetrician to a shark.

"I thought it was a stranded dolphin but when I made my way over, I realized it was a (Blue) shark," Carrillo told the newspaper La Opinión de Málaga.

After calling emergency services to alert them of the situation, Carrillo took a closer look at the six-foot-long shark and thought he would just drag it back into the water himself.

"It seemed tired," he said, "but not injured or hurt."