For the second straight day, swimmers looking to cool off at Long Island beaches had to evacuate the water after a lifeguard may have had a close encounter with a shark in the water
Fortunately, no bites were reported in either instance, and the evacuations were just precautionary. Swimmers were allowed back into the water by the mid-afternoon.while in the water on Wednesday. In the first incident, surfer Shawn Donnely suffered a four-inch gash to the leg when he was bitten by what he believed was a sand Tiger shark in the water just east of the main beach at Smith Point County Park, officials said at a briefing.
Donnely was taken to a hospital that declined to comment on his condition later in the day. Suffolk's chief lifeguard said that the man was"a little shaken up, as you can imagine," but said that he is expected to recover. Smith Point, where the earlier incident took place, was one of two Suffolk County beaches that temporarily halted water activities earlier this month over"dangerous marine activity." Cupsogue was the other one that had previously closed.
"I think this was a curious animal and I was in the wrong place at the wrong time," Gallo said."We are entering their world and we have to respect the ocean, respect that that’s their world."
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