Many bathers at Ponquogue Beach in Hampton Bays were surprised to find a basking shark—a large, slow-moving variety of shark that is not known to attack humans—swimming near the shore on Sunday afternoon.
Earlier that day, the U.S. Coast Guard and Southampton Town bay constables responded to several calls after beachgoers reported seeing a large fin in the water off the shore of West Hampton Dunes Village. Quogue and Westhampton Beach village police were notified about the shark at around 11 a.m. and warned bathers at various beaches along Dune Road to stay out of the water until the shark had passed as a precaution.
It appears that the same basking shark that was observed in West Hampton Dunes on Sunday morning had made its way east to the Shinnecock Canal by... more
Earlier that day, the U.S. Coast Guard and Southampton Town bay constables responded to several calls after beachgoers reported seeing a large fin in the water off the shore of West Hampton Dunes Village. Quogue and Westhampton Beach village police were notified about the shark at around 11 a.m. and warned bathers at various beaches along Dune Road to stay out of the water until the shark had passed as a precaution.
It appears that the same basking shark that was observed in West Hampton Dunes on Sunday morning had made its way east to the Shinnecock Canal by... more
