A shark has washed ashore on a beach in Southampton just days before the Fourth of July holiday. The sighting, a first for many locals, came after a 20-year-old female swimmer was bitten by an unseen creature underwater at the Central Mall beach at Jones Beach State Park on Long Island on Wednesday, June 25. Experts later confirmed the bite was from a shark, thought to be a juvenile sand tiger shark. The beach was reopened after lifeguards and police were unable to track the shark. There were no apparent signs of injury on the young shark found at Flying Point Beach in Southampton on Sunday. It was about four feet long and believed to have become marooned on the sand. It’s not known what type of shark, but it wasn’t fully grown. The beach is popular with families and surfers attracted by the big waves. A New York artist recently captured drone camera images of sharks in the waters about 30 feet off the Hamptons beaches. The woman bitten at Jones Beach was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
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