Shark hauled up on Galveston beach

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A fisherman reeled a large shark on to the beach near Galveston as onlookers watched in amazement, according to a video of the incident posted on Facebook.

Beaumont man Demarcus Arvie posted the three-minute footage of the shark on July 5 with the message, "They are out there," locating himself at Galveston Beach.

Onlookers took multiple photos and videos as the fisherman, confirmed Thursday as Paul Lipinski, 50, from Cypress, unhooked the giant fish. Lipinski then took the lemon shark by the tail and dragged it from Crystal Beach where he was fishing, back out into the Gulf.

There's just one scary moment where the shark recovers and tries to bite him.

"One that big can't spin around and get to you, a little one as big as your arm maybe could but one that big cant get to you," said Lipinski.

The video went viral with over 13,000 shares, one to KPRC-TV's page where they picked it up and ran with it on their telecast.

Galveston Island Beach Patrol says they were not informed of the catch, the second shark-based incident on the island this summer.

Fisherman Paul Lipinski, 50, from Cyrpess, unhooks the shark and drags it back out into the Gulf in a video posted on Facebook and located at Galveston Beach. Fisherman Paul Lipinski, 50, from Cyrpess, unhooks the shark and drags it back out into the Gulf in a video posted on Facebook and located at Galveston Beach. Photo: Demarcus Arvie/Facebook Photo: Demarcus Arvie/Facebook Image 1 of / 53 Caption Close Shark hauled up on Galveston beach 1 / 53 Back to Gallery

Earlier in the year, a 14-year-old Bellaire girl suffered minor injuries after a shark bit her back.

Peter Davis at Beach Patrol said these shark sightings are not out of the ordinary, suggesting that social media use just means we are more likely to hear about them.

"They're out there and there's a lot of fishermen that fish for them," Davis said.

Shark bite cases remain low, however.

"They wont bite you unless you do something that makes them confuse you wth food," he said. "The most important thing is to avoid schooling fish – if you think about it they're eating the fish and if you're in the middle of it they're going to grab you by mistake."

A life long fisherman, Lipinski said in his view you would win the lottery before getting attacked by a shark in Texas waters.

"Stingrays are worse, cars are worse ... there was 150 DWI's in Harris county over the holiday, the chances of something happening off what we do are one in a million," Lipinski said.