{"id":384339,"date":"2026-07-03T00:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384339\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T00:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:08:16","slug":"shark-spotted-by-long-island-swimmers-closes-beaches-on-90-degree-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384339\/","title":{"rendered":"Shark spotted by Long Island swimmers closes beaches on 90-degree day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swimmers at a Long Island beach had a \u201cJaws\u201d-dropping experience \u2014 spotting a massive 9-foot shark that shut down the water as patrols are now in search of the beast<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The fish was first seen<\/a> on Thursday just before 10:30 a.m. at Point Lookout in Hempstead, prompting the town\u2019s shark patrol units<\/a> to spring into action, officials told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce lifeguards confirmed the sighting \u2014 they red flagged the beach and now shark patrol is out on the water,\u201d Hempstead Town Supervisor John Ferretti<\/a> told The Post this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"AerialSwimmers at a Long Island beach spotted a massive 9-foot shark. CBS New York<\/p>\n

Those trying to escape the humid, 90-plus degree day at a town beach in Hempstead<\/a> had to look elsewhere for hours before the red-flag was finally lifted, allowing swimmers back into the water by 2 p.m., town officials told The Post.<\/p>\n

However, It is currently unclear whether the sighting may cause additional beach closures throughout the Fourth of July weekend if spotted again. <\/p>\n

\"Close-upThe shark was first spotted by beachgoers on Thursday just before 10:30 a.m. at Point Lookout in Hempstead, causing lifeguards to shut down all swimming and close the beach along with all those that are adjacent. Jacob \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

The sighting comes just barely two months after a 9-foot, 423 pound great white shark was spotted close by the Jersey Shore<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last June, a 20-year-old woman was bitten on the foot<\/a> by a shark while swimming in the water at Central Mall beachfront at Jones Beach State Park just a week after another woman was bit by a tiger shark at just miles away at the same beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are sharks in the water,\u201d Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman told reporters a year ago, when he first announced a boost in summer shark patrols after the attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swimmers at a Long Island beach had a \u201cJaws\u201d-dropping experience \u2014 spotting a massive 9-foot shark that shut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1785,155188,131,133,132,2890,4182,2887,2193],"class_list":["post-384339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beaches","tag-hempstead","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-island","tag-metro","tag-nassau-county","tag-sharks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}