Catching sharks is never a routine business, even for experts like Burkholder and his crew.
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Burkholder shouted as the weight carried the baited line deep into the water.
"It was a heck of a season for our team and our program" Niagara coach Dave Burkholder said.
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Working as fast as a Formula 1 pit crew, the professionals on Burkholder's team secured the shark and removed the hook.
We crowded around the stern, watching silently as James, Burkholder and a few others pulled on the line with gloved hands.
In the 12 expeditions Burkholder had led so far, he and his usual corps of graduate students had obtained data on 59 sharks.
One of the grad students looped a line around its tail, and Burkholder and a couple of others hauled the shark toward the stern.
CNN's Mary Carter, Elizabeth Cohen and Amy Burkholder contributed to this story.
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"Never, ever wrap your hand for any reason in the line, " Burkholder said to the volunteers who were eager to do the menial labour of science in exchange for getting a closer look at the creatures they were hoping to save.
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