WATCH: Beachgoers work together to rescue stranded great white shark

The juvenile male had become stranded on the beach in Chatham, Massachusetts while trying to catch seagulls.

A group of stingers on the beach banded together to save a young great white shark that had become stranded.

The incident occured around 1.30pm when a passer-by noticed the shark had beached itself while trying to catch seagulls off Chatham, Massachusetts.

Pic via Youtube/Mike Bartel

Around 30 people worked together to keep the seven-foot juvenile male wet by throwing buckets of sea water over it as it lay in the sand. At around 5pm, the harbour master, a biologist from the state’s Division of Marine Fisheries and other officials then managed to tow the shark back into the water by tying a rope round one if its fins.

"Twenty, 25 years ago, they wouldn’t be exactly helping the shark. They’d be harming the shark. But now every single person on that beach was trying to assist it,” harbour master Stuart Smith told the Boston Globe.

“The people on the beach made the difference.”

The shark is reported to have begun swimming a mile out to sea - prompting applause from the spectators on the beach.

There have been multiple reports of great whites seen in the area off Cape Cod -with two being spotted just last week.