This is Kevin McMurray with trackingsharks.com.
Today we are examining 5 recent shark attacks.
In New York.
The first incident occurred around 10:00 AM July 13.
A man was paddleboarding off Smith Point Beach when a shark grabbed his board.
He punched in the shark, which left.
And then turned around.
Man caught a way back to shore and took his shark bitten board to local Rangers.
Reports indicate he had minor ones.
Authorities who examined the board believe a sand tiger shark was responsible.
Around 6:00 PM the same day a man was waiting.
Off Seaview beach.
When a shark grabbed his buttocks in hand.
The Man was able to walk out of the water, but due to the severity of the wounds he was
airlifted to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The next bite occurred on Jones Beach State Park, June 30th When a man was bitten on the
foot.
The 57-year-old was bitten on the right foot around 10:00 AM.
Medics responded to the area, but not much else has been released.
The third occurred off Smith Point Beach.
Zachary Glue, 33, was playing a victim in Chin Deep water July 3rd awaiting rescue from
his fellow lifeguards.
He was treading water when something grabbed his right hand.
So I was treading water waiting for our lifeguards to come get me and I felt the sharp pain in
my hand.
And I realized something was attached to it.
As I was pulling, you know, pulling my hand to my chest.
Zachary Gallo says what was attached to his hand was a 5-foot shark and he knew at that
moment he had to fight off the shark with his bare hands.
Got into survival mode and I just start hammer punching and on I connected.
With the animal three times felt the rubbery skin and it was about the size of a.
Basketball to re punch the shark.
He says it tail whipped him in the chest and the animal took on.
The lifeguard quickly swam back to shore, where fellow lifeguards administered first
aid.
He was taken to the hospital where he received two stitches and given orders to stay out
of the water.
For 10 days.
He plans on getting back in the water and advises everyone to swim in the areas protected
by lifeguards.
The final shark bite occurred off Ocean Beach.
John Mullins was also participating in lifeguard training when he was bitten on the foot.
The teams were like inside my skin and when I pulled my foot out and kind of just felt
like a scrape like a rate.
Going off of my foot.
Lifeguard John Mullins talks about his encounter with a shark during a training exercise off
Ocean Beach on Fire Island yesterday.
I saw pictures of the sharks that was spotted, and if that was the shark that bit me.
I but I could have lost my.
Foot yesterday he
Swam straight into shore from 100.
50 yards out.
After realizing he'd been bitten, he was out there playing an emergency victim in the exercise,
and while he's got the scars to prove that a 7 to 8 foot shark may have mistaken parts
of his body.
For the bait fish it usually eats.
Based on the report, Mullins was quite a ways away from the beach in what sounds like deeper
water.
The 17 year old will get back in the water with some hesitation.
Which is completely understand.
Scientists attribute a cleaner, recovering environment that was plagued with pollution
and overfishing.
The area is seeing a resurgence in bunker fish, which are a food source for sharks.
As a side note, Mullins was most likely bitten by sand tiger shark, not an actual tiger shark.
Shark patrols have been initiated in the area using jet skis, boats, drones and choppers.
The Resurgence and sea life has also brought bigger sharks offshore.
Just last month, a white shark was found about a mile away from Townsends Inlet.
Exciting, they say that this all happened.
About a mile from here, which is where
We are at the opening to Townsends Inlet.
We spoke to the guys on that boat who got all that incredible video and they say this
was a close encounter that.
They will never forget right off the coast to.
See, I'll look at his monster.
Saturday around noon, Jim Piazza was bringing his new boat in.
After fishing for a few hours off the coast of Sea Isle City.
I always ran it over.
My son was like pointing to it like hey there guys is shark.
I'm like no way so I made a loop around and you circled it for about 10 minutes, and it
was just kind of swimming north towards Ocean City.
Jim's son and his son friend were on the boat and through.
The shark a.
Few fish Jim cousin Joey was also on the boat.
Joey says he's fished up and down the East Coast and this is the closest encounter he's
had.
With a great white.
In 2017, a white shark was shown to be in the Big Apple on the Shark Week show sharks
in the city.
Piece of technology right here.
It's a.
Faded camera trap.
Really, really simple.
Device PVC.
They a GoPro you drop.
It down to the Sea floor for about 3 hours then you retrieve.
It and you hope it's all mangled.
That's a sign that a.
Great white may have.
Absolutely destroyed it and then you.
Watch all the footage now I know.
And especially, you can't say exactly where but it was.
Popular tourist destination that you saw a great.
White, So what we?
Tell kids now that we're telling them the great.
Whites are coming.
How do we stay safe?
I think instead.
Of instilling fear in kids we.
Need to really tell them the truth about sharks and sharks are incredibly important.
We need to teach them that these.
Animals can balance an entire ecosystem.
And I also think that we need to tell kids.
But it's way more dangerous to be
Walking around new.
York City in 2016.
Yeah more New Yorkers.
There were ten times more likely to bite each other.
Right?
New Yorkers than sharks biting humans.
Thank you so much.
The Shark tracking group.
Ocearch has tracked several white sharks within 100 miles of New York, but none close to shore.
Shark attack bites are still rare for the state.
For comparison, 100 people drowned in the state in 2019.
None were killed by sharks.
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