Four great white sharks have been spotted in two days amid a spate of attacks along the East Coast.
A great white named Luke was spotted cruising the waters off of Cape Cod.The first sighting occurred on July 11 after an 11-foot great white shark — which is the largest predatory fish,— was spotted in Chatham Harbor. The following day, a shark named Luke was detected swimming near the beach in the Gulf of Maine on July.
In the most recent two sightings on July 13, a shark named Granese was recorded off Nauset Beach while another named Kendal was also seen. The sightings comes amid a rash of attacks off the East Coast this month. Earlier today, Long Island’s Smith Point Beach was shuttered after a 41-year-old surfer was bitten on the leg by what he believed was a Sand Tiger Shark,This marked the beach’s second closure this month with the first coming two weeks ago following another attack. The victim, named Zack Gallo, had been bitten in the chest and right hand by a 4- to 5-foot-long shark while conducting an ocean training exercise.
“I felt sharp, sharp pain and I knew it was some kind of … once I felt the rubbery texture, I knew it was some kind of shark,” said Gallo, recalling the ordeal.“I hit the shark three times,” he explained. “I went boom, boom, boom. Guess in the third one it spun back and its tail hit me in the chest.”
“Just know that large sharks are here,” Megan Winton, a scientist with the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, said during a press conference in Chatham on Wednesday. “They’re a constant presence from June to the fall.”Unfortunately, this spike in shark activity along the Northeast might not be anecdotal. Long Island has seen a veritable sharknado of sightings with
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