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title: "How long can a shark stay alive outside of water?"  
description: "How long can a shark stay alive outside of water?"  
author: "samay srivastava"  
published: 2018-03-05  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/36755/how-long-can-a-shark-stay-alive-outside-of-water  
category: "animal life"  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How long can a shark stay alive outside of water?

How [long](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32283/why-is-bitcoin-surging-and-how-long-can-this-continue) can a shark stay alive outside of [water](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/323154/fluoride-in-your-water-filtration-guide-2020)?

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## Answers

### Answer by Anamika Srivastava

![How long can a shark stay alive outside of water?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/711dee26-38dc-4092-acad-5aa99b1b57be/images/166e4653-7323-44ae-bc2e-56c57fe7928d.png)\

It’s not a scientific answer, **it depends on the shark the circumstances as how it came to be outside of the water. How much energy it expended,** but according to my friend experience shark can stay alive outside of the water **only 3-5 minutes if there’s dry condition.** But when we treat correctly like keep shark in wet condition, maintain the humidity they can stay alive for 10-15 minutes depends to species and size. **But we have standard time for shark handling, especially in by catch case, no more 3 minutes to handling shark outside water**.\


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