Out of the water, only 15 survived. These were "adopted" by the National Museum and Marine Aquarium in Taiwan, and an aquarium in Japan, but most of them died within the space of six months.
離水的小鯨鯊僅有十五隻存活，分別由國立海洋科學館、日本研究單位「收養」，但幾乎都在半年內陸續死亡。