Social media users are seeking to name a surfer caught on video who saved a struggling seabird earlier this week in Florida.

Identifying the Good Samaritan on a surfboard in the viral video has been no ‘shore thing,’ however. The video has been shared hundreds of times on Reels.

Brandon Terronez, who took the video while walking the pier at Cocoa Beach, said to FOX 35 Orlando. “He’s a hero to a lot of people.”

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“We did think that poor bird might be done for in that moment,” said Terronez to FOX 35 Orlando.

Out of the blue, a surfer gently scooped up the bird in distress and placed it on his surfboard before paddling back to shore.

“[The bird] was either waterlogged or it was pushed in from a storm,” Heather Pepe-Dillon told FOX 35 Orlando.

Pepe-Dillon’s agency, Wild Florida Rescue, responds to calls for wildlife in distress in Brevard County, Florida.

“If this man would have come into shore, called in, it would not have been rescued, so this is a fantastic case, and we love to see it,” added Pepe-Dillon.

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Wild Florida Rescue was not called in this specific instance, but from the video, Heather Pepe-Dillon believes the bird may have been a sooty tern. The seabirds cannot survive when caught in rough waters.

“It was either waterlogged or it was pushed in from a storm,” said Pepe-Dillon to FOX 35 Orlando. “They just get colder and colder, and they could get hypothermia.”

Social media users are calling this mystery surfer a “hero” after paddling away with a bird in distress. (WOFL)

The video continues to garner attention on social media. “I thought it would be seen by a few people on my Facebook list,” said Brandon Terronez to FOX 35 Orlando. “Instead, it has blown up quite a bit.”

One of the top comments reads, “and then God created surfers.” 

“It may only take a few seconds out of your day like this surfer, and it can have a ripple effect, you know, make a lasting impact,” said Terronez. 

Fox News Digital has not yet found success in identifying the mystery surfer in the video.

Mason Schermerhorn last texted his mom from the restroom before he was discovered as one of the four killed in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, a chaplain and youth minister who tried to help find the teen said. 

Ronald Clark had stopped at a store on his way home Wednesday morning, when he learned of the shooting from his wife via phone call.

He rushed to the scene, and quickly offered his services to law enforcement at the command post. He was instructed to assist crews on the investigative side. 

About an hour later, he said he started seeing the students, who were “hurt.”

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“You want to have the arms big enough to grab everybody, but it’s only so much that you can do,” he said, calling the situation “challenging.”

He described the look on victims’ faces as “shock,” and said those who provided their testimonies to him in an attempt to cope were “strong.”

About 30 minutes later, Clark said he began assisting Schermerhorn’s mother, who is his coworker, with trying to find him.

“It was hard, because we were just talking about her kids on Tuesday this week,” Clark said. “She was saying that the bond and the connection she has with her kids is unbreakable.”

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Wes Robertson, area county teacher and former teacher of slain student Mason Schermerhorn, lays flowers at the entrance sign of Apalachee High School on September 5, 2024, in Winder, Georgia. (Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)

Schermerhorn’s mother told the chaplain she believed that the 14-year-old autistic student was okay.

“‘Hey, I can’t find him,” Clark remembers her saying. “‘I’m just here to pick him up. I know he’s safe. He text me that he’s in the restroom. Can you please help?’”

Clark then took a photo of the teen to the command post, where he quickly learned that Schermerhorn was one of the “confirmed” dead. 

From left to right: Math teachers Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie were killed at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, along with Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, officials say. (Fox News)

“He was a great kid, from what I was told. Loved life, didn’t have any issues with anyone. He was autistic, but that didn’t stop his glow,” Clark said.  

As for any advice the youth minister could give parents, it is to maintain communication with their kids. 

“You don’t understand how much we are valued at home,” he said, adding that some children’s faces lit up on Wednesday when they were reunited with their parents following the school shooting. “Pay attention to your children.”

Jackson County, Georgia, officers in 2023 spoke face-to-face with the boy who is now charged with felony murder in the deaths of four at Apalachee High School in Winder on Wednesday.

The sheriff’s officers described their interactions in a detailed investigation report from May 21, 2023, when suspect Colt Gray was 13 years old, after being tipped off by the FBI about a threat on the messaging app Discord of a threat to shoot up a middle school. Discord is popular with some video gamers.

Gray said he had previously deleted a Discord account and denied that he would make such a threat, “even in a joking manner,” according to the report.

Gray’s father, Colin, told the officers that he had hunting rifles in the house but that his son “does not have unfettered access to them.” The two guns were both “locked away,” the father told them. Authorities have said the shooting was carried out with an AR-style rifle.

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“I urged Colin to keep his firearms locked away, and advised him to keep Colt out of school until this matter could be resolved,” investigator Daniel Miller Jr. wrote.

Jackson County investigators could not substantiate the Discord threat, which came from a user profile that spelled Lanza in Russian, according to the report. Adam Lanza perpetrated the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012.

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The officer also found that the information sent to the FBI was communicated via various IP addresses across the world: Palmdale, California; Los Angeles; and Cockburn, Australia. He also reviewed the email address and phone number related to the case as well as the user profile linked to the threats. 

A screenshot from a video shows the weapon allegedly used in the mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. (Alexsandra Romero/Joel Romero via Storyful)

“At this time, due to the inconsistent nature of the information received by the FBI, the allegation that [the Apalachee shooting suspect or his father] is the user behind the Discord account that made the threat cannot be substantiated,” the investigating officer wrote in 2023. “This case will be exceptionally cleared.”

The FBI said Thursday that the bureau did not directly investigate the suspect behind the Georgia high school mass shooting this week but shared the anonymous tip with local law enforcement.

The report described the suspect as “quit (sic), calm and reserved while we spoke with him.” Colin Gray said his family had recently been evicted from their previous home, that he and his wife were divorced and that “she took the two younger kids.”

“Colin conveyed that his 13 year old son had some problems at West Jackson Middle School and now that he is going to Jefferson Middle School it has gotten a lot better,” the report reads.

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An FBI source told Fox News Digital that if there is no immediate threat to life, it is protocol to inform local law enforcement, provide information and have them investigate tips.

“There’s only so much you can do when you get those warnings,” former FBI agent Rob D’Amico told “FOX & Friends First” on Thursday. 

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Cars are parked on the side of a road as law enforcement officers work at the scene of a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. (REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage)

“The local officers went out and interviewed the father, interviewed the son. He denied making those online threats,” D’Amico continued. “The father said that the son did not have unfettered access to the weapons. They did what they could, and then they left because there was no probable cause to take other action.”

A spokesperson for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation told Fox News Digital that the parents of the suspected shooter “have been cooperative up until this point.” 

The comment came in response to a question about whether authorities are investigating the shooter’s parents in the wake of Wednesday’s attack, which left four dead and nine others injured.

The suspect has been booked into the Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center and was charged with four counts of felony murder ahead of his first court appearance Friday morning. The Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center is located about an hour north of Apalachee High School in Winder. 

Women weep during a vigil at Jug Tavern Park after the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. (Reuters/Elijah Nouvelage)

Matthew Fagiana, a retired police sergeant and law enforcement consultant, told Fox News Digital that officials are zeroing in on the 14-year-old suspect’s past and motive at the start of the investigation.

“Things such as the timeline of the incident, a chronological history of the suspect leading up to the shooting, a deep look into the suspect’s past for things such as interactions with the victims, the existence of any indications of violent behavior, statements or social media posts that could help them develop a motive, and recent internet history,” he said. 

“And that, of course, only scratches the surface of the investigation,” he added.

Fagiana noted that responding agencies, including the FBI’s Atlanta field office and Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, are combing the scene of Apalachee High School to construct an “accurate picture” of the suspect’s pathway through the school.

Fox News Digital’s Greg Norman, Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Stepheny Price contributed to this report.