School of 50 sharks closes down Long Island beach after two teens bitten
The sharks were seen schooling about 200 yards off Robert Moses Beach around 8 a.m. before beaches opened for the“There were about 50 sand sharks that we saw,” Long Island Parks Regional Director George Gorman told The Post.Gorman said staff monitoredalso known as sand tiger sharks, with surveillance drones for about an hour and a half before they determined the beaches were safe and opened for the day around 9:30 a.m.
The shark sightings come after a 15-year-old girl swimming off Robert Moses Beach around 1:45 p.m. Monday said something bit her leg. The boy was taken to Good Samaritan University Hospital in West Islip with his ankle and toes intact, Suffolk County police said.A Suffolk County Police boat cruisers the water off Robert Moses Beach on the Fourth of July, a day after a boy was bitten by a shark and a girl was suspected of being bitten.Despite their frightening ragged-toothed appearance, sand sharks are generally docile creatures.
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