Staten Island +Several Sharks Sightings+
Staten Island +Several Sharks Sightings+ At Midland Beach Parks Dept confirming there are several sharks in the water circling off shore, PD on scene requesting Aviation and Harbor units, everybody out of the water, beach and adjacent beaches and the boardwalk are being closed.
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 8/07/2005 11:08:00 AM
9 Comments:
At 12:51 PM,
Anonymous said…
Why are the beaches and boardwalks closed.I never knew that sharks had legs.
At 2:12 PM,
Anonymous said…
loan sharks from atlantic city are very dangerous
At 5:01 PM,
Anonymous said…
sharks bite legs, loan sharks break legs, whats the differance?
At 9:47 AM,
Anonymous said…
And how is this hemishe news?
At 9:59 AM,
Anonymous said…
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/51021.htm
FALSE ALARM
At 10:11 AM,
Anonymous said…
Just when they thought it was safe to go in the water . . . it was!
Sunbathers at Midland Beach on Staten Island got a scare yesterday when they were rushed out of the water by jittery lifeguards who mistook hundreds of migrating, cow-nosed rays off the coast for a school of blue sharks.
Lifeguards spotted fins sprouting from the water at around 10 a.m. and immediately cleared the waters.
"I was scared because this is the stuff you read about," said Wendy DeJesus, whose young kids were chased from the ocean by lifeguards.
The city Parks Department summoned NYPD harbor and aviation units, which confirmed that the fins belonged to the docile rays apparently on their way from Maine to the Florida.
The beach was reopened at around 3 p.m.
"They're harmless," said Parks Department spokesman Ashe Reardon. "They were feeding in the ocean while migrating down south."
Some beachgoers said the sight was more majestic than frightening, and hundreds gathered to snap photos and cheer as fins surfaced by the minute.
"Everywhere you look, you see fins. It's really beautiful," said sunbather Cathie Felitti. "They didn't get the word that this is the forgotten borough."
Initial reports indicated that as many as 100 blue sharks up to 8 feet long were stalking the coast. At their largest, cow-nosed rays are 7 feet.
In June, a dead 6-foot blue shark washed up on the shore of Rockaway Beach. Marine biologists figured it was caught by a fisherman and dumped near the coast.
At 11:36 AM,
Anonymous said…
HATZOLAH PUT THE SHARK THERE!
At 1:53 PM,
Anonymous said…
No the VAAD HATZNIUS did. They didn't want anyone to go mixed swimming.
At 6:13 PM,
Anonymous said…
a good place to spend some time there with the wife, at night the area is empty.
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