A stretch of Rockaway Beach in Queens was closed for more than an hour on Saturday morning after a shark was spotted swimming among surfers near the shore.
“It swam right under my buddy’s board as he was paddling out, and some surfers paddled away around the jetty,” said Alex Karinsky, 46, of Rockaway. “It’s the third shark sighting here this summer.”
The shark — some beachgoers insisted there were actually three — was spotted around 10 a.m. by surfers at what is one of the city’s official surfing beaches, near Beach 90th Street. Lifeguards ordered surfers out of the water along a stretch of more than a mile.
A shark sighting sent Cocoa Beach swimmers running for shore yesterday. The shark was spotted Thursday afternoon by Brevard County Ocean Rescue staff. Lifeguards had to order about 300 swimmers to get out of the water for at least 30 minutes.
Assistant Chief Eisen Witcher says the 30-minute wait policy is to gauge if the sharks are still around. If they are, the clocks starts over.
Three Massachusetts beaches are closed after shark sightings near New Bedford. The East, West, and Fort Tabor beaches are all closed to swimming, but shell fishermen are still allowed to venture into the water at their own risk.
At 10 a.m. on Wednesday morning, a rowing instructor spotted a shark-like figure in the water. After another sighting, the Fairhaven Harbormaster agreed that it was a shark. They believe it was an 8-10 foot Great White, very similar to the description of the shark that was spotted at Horseneck Beach 8 miles north.
Volusia County is known for it’s shark attacks not many swimmers would expect sharks to be lurking in the Intercoastal Waterway. Well, an image of a 10-foot-long, 400-pound bull shark was posted on the Florida Sportsman website. It’s labeled as being hooked in the New Smyrna Beach River on July 2. The shark was supposedly captured not far from where people swim. Careful out there!
A woman was attacked by a shark in chest-deep water at a Mickler’s Landing near Jacksonville, Florida. The woman saw the 3- to 4-foot-long shark coming directly at her. When she tried to block it with her arm, the shark dug in.
“She screamed, ‘I just got attacked by a shark. Everybody get out of the water,’” witness Jen Moe said. “She came running at me, screaming. I looked at her arm and it was just shredded.”
Then about 50-75 people who were in the water at the time of the attack ran for the sand.
Rescuers said what made the shark attack unusual was that the water was crystal clear and, according to experts, shark attacks are usually the result of mistaken identity, but in this case it appears the shark was headed right for the woman.
This is the third attack in this area in the past two months. The previous two were at Jacksonville Beach, one on June 10 and another on July 23.
A 4.5 ft sand tiger shark was caught just 100 yards off the Milford shore in Long Island Sound. The two men who caught the shark would not give away their secret fishing spot because they don’t want to scare off beachgoers. Still, I wonder if the shark’s mother is out there looking for the pup. A full grown sand tiger shark can get up to 13 feet long and weigh up to 250 pounds. Just sayin’.
Chatham beaches were closed on Friday after at least 5 great white sharks were spotted off the coast, some as close as 100 yards from shore. Just before 11 a.m., two 12- to 14-foot great whites swam 200 yards apart, about a quarter-mile off South Beach. To the north, another great white was swimming back and forth about 100 yards off the beach. Then around 1 p.m., three sharks were spotted, all within 100 yards of the coast.
A 5-foot shark was spotted at the Jersey Shore yesterday afternoon prompting lifeguards to briefly close a beach on the Barnegat Peninsula for the third time this month.
Lifeguards in Seaside Park called bathers out of the water about 2:30 p.m. after the shark was seen swimming 10-feet off shore. The shark practically made its way all the way to shore!
On July 12 sharks were seen off Ocean Beach north of Seaside Park. On July 15, two sharks off Midway Beach, directly south of Seaside Park, caused lifeguards to suspend swimming for several hours.
