Photo: Quogue Village Police Department/Facebook
The bite resulted in a 4-inch cut, the outlets reported. He was later transported to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip for treatment.
The Suffolk County Police Department did not immediate respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Luckily, Mike said his son Max’s injury did not appear to be serious. “I wanted to see how the bleed was, and thank God it wasn’t an arterial bleed,” he said. “It was something we could control.”
Officials reportedly attempted to search for the shark using a police helicopter, but were unsuccessful due to murky water, according to the outlets.
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This is at least the sixth shark bite incident to occur on Long Beach this summer, according to WNBC.
The same day as the Kismet Beach attack, theQuogue Village Police Departmentannounced that a dead shark had washed up on the Ocean Beaches on Dune Road.
The shark was an estimated 7 to 8 feet long, according to a post on the department’s Facebook page.
The QVPD said they are in contact with the South Fork Natural History Museum Shark Research and Education Program “who are attempting to monitor this situation” alongside law enforcement.
Swimmers and boaters were cautioned and asked “to keep distance to allow the Law Enforcement to monitor this event.”
In 2021 the United States led all countries with 47 confirmed cases of unprovoked shark bites, or 64% of the global total, according to theUniversity of Florida. The number of U.S. shark bites is up 42% from 2020, which saw 33 incidents occur.
Florida leads the U.S. in shark bites, with 28 of the 47 confirmed cases (60%) from 2021, the university reported.
source: people.com
