A person swimming at a Lengthy Island seaside could have been bitten by a shark, in line with witnesses and officers, resulting in a bloody scene.
The person, believed to be in his 30s, was within the water at a packed Jones Seashore round midday on Friday. Witnesses mentioned he gave the impression to be struggling whereas popping out of the water, and he immediately fell to the bottom.
In keeping with the witnesses, one of many man’s toes was bleeding profusely. Lifeguards got here to assist the person, with one sacrificing his shirt to make use of as a tourniquet across the foot. A Parks Division spokesperson informed NBC New York the gash on the person’s foot was fairly massive, and it appeared like probably a tooth had precipitated the minimize.
EMTs on the seaside additionally believed it could have been a shark chew. The person was taken to Nassau College Medical Middle to deal with his accidents, which weren’t thought of to be life-threatening.
Lifeguards stored the big crowds — about 100,000 individuals have been believed to have gone to the Nassau County seaside throughout the day — out of the water whereas they went out on jet skis to seek for any sharks within the surf. Different groups took boats and searched the water utilizing drones.
After about an hour of no shark sightings, beachgoers have been allowed again within the water, however solely allowed to go as much as their waists.
