Shark Rescue

Coverage reported that a three-metre-long female dusky shark nicknamed Bukangi had been stranded in a canal in Busan, South Korea, for about 34 days. Rescue workers made several attempts to return her to the sea. She was freed but returned to the canal. BBC NEWS reported that, overnight, she had swum back through a barrier installed the previous day and was at a secondary barrier. Another BBC NEWS bulletin reported that after three failed attempts on the fourth day, rescue workers succeeded in placing a barrier keeping her outside toward the mouth of the canal; she was then seen leaving toward the open harbour but minutes later circled back and lingered around the canal. Authorities planned another rescue operation to drive her back to the open sea.

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A three-metre-long female dusky shark nicknamed Bukangi was stranded in a canal in Busan, South Korea, for about 34 days.	Reported by BBC News	Reported by ITV
Rescue workers made repeated attempts to return the shark to the sea, but it returned to the canal, including after passing a barrier installed to keep it out.	Reported by BBC News	Reported by ITV
The shark had not been seen feeding for 34 days, had scrapes on her nose and fins, appeared weakened by attention and noise, and experts warned she could not survive long away from her natural habitat.	Reported by BBC News	Reported by ITV
The shark became a local celebrity, drawing about 1.6 million visitors to the canal in a month compared with the usual 14,000 a week, and was made an official mascot or honorary ambassador amid merchandise and tourism promotion.	Reported by BBC News	Reported by ITV
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Authorities planned another rescue operation to drive the shark back to the open sea.	Reported by BBC News	Not reported by ITV
A lead scientist said it was unclear why the shark returned, with a leading theory that noise from ships in the open harbour had affected her sense of direction or navigation.	Reported by BBC News	Not reported by ITV
The shark's species cannot survive a South Korean winter, and falling temperatures in the open harbour might motivate her to seek warmer water.	Reported by BBC News	Not reported by ITV
Some crowd members shouted slogans asking the government to remove the net and allow the shark to stay.	Reported by BBC News	Not reported by ITV
The shark is a threatened species and is believed to have swum from the Korea Strait into Busan, possibly drawn by unusually warm water.	Not reported by BBC News	Reported by ITV

This is a cross-channel consensus summary, not an objective account. Consensus can be uniformly wrong, or omit what only one channel covered.