20 Foot Shark Washes Ashore at Long Island, New York
'Harmless' 20-Foot Shark Washes Up On NYC Beach Estimated At 2000 Pounds, Basking Shark Is Second Only To Whale Shark In Size; Jaw-Dropped Beachgoers Stunned. BABYLON, NY (CBS) ― It was a sight like many have never seen before. Talk about a fish out of water. A 20-foot long shark weighing an estimated ton washed up on the sands of Gilgo Beach on Long Island on Tuesday. "Jaws"-dropped Beachgoers broke out their cameras to get a rare snapshot. "I haven't seen a shark in the water around here, but in other places like Hawaii and Puerto Rico," one beachgoer told CBS station WCBS-TVin New York City. At first, spectators weren't sure what to make of the giant creature. "I was about to go in the water and I saw this thing laying on the beach. Pretty crazy. I thought it was a great white or something," said surfer Andrew Brooke. Turns out there's nothing to fear here. This was a basking shark which, though big, is not considered dangerous. "He's a plankton feeder. You can see inside there's no teeth inside his mouth," said marine biologist Tracy Marcus. "He's a relatively harmless kind of shark, but large." "It's the second largest fish in the world, second to the whale shark," Marcus said. Marcus works with the Cornell Cooperative Extension and examined the giant fish. "I don't see any major scarring, I mean there is a little bit of a boat hit, it looks like, a little bit of rawness near the tail, but nothing that would kill a shark," Marcus said. "It would have been fun if it ...
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May 30th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
@LyricallyTheBest Wow you’re gay. Humans have more superiority than animals.
May 30th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
the news like to interview the dumbest peopleat the scene LOL
May 30th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Suffolk County is not NYC…
May 30th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
is it jones beach ?
May 30th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
Me and my dad saww it in the hole where it wa going to be buried. It was all cut up and gross:p
May 30th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Why is harmless in quotation marks? Basking sharks are harmless, are you implying that they aren’t?
May 30th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
A basking shark washed up on the east coast of Canada, as well.
Strange.
May 30th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
See that stupid bitch taking a photo with her child, Id laugh hard if the shark rolled over n swallowed her child, wouldnt be smiling then would ya dumb bitch.
May 30th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
I hate fag’s who think they’re better than any other living creature. No one has a better value than any other living animal. Those fag’s taking pictures of themselves and taking pictures of the shark, and those dumbass surfers, Just really tick me off. GET BETTER PEOPLE TO INTERVIEW. HOLY CRAP.
May 30th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
They ARE harmless, they’re like whales in that they filter feed.
May 30th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
the news is really good at finding the dumbest people to interview
May 30th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
@108OneOhEight since the fact that there are more jews in long island than there are in israel. (and we’re about the same size)
May 30th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
“jewish place” since when?
May 30th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Haahaha that blond kid was such a fag. you cant be a surfer in li.
May 30th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
a alguien no se le habra ocurrido amarrarlo de la cola con un bote y empujarlo hasta mar adentro…. no se como habia tanta gente..a lo mejor hubiese sobrevivido
May 30th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
it’s more of a jewish place. learn your shit before you start insulting. it just makes you look like a dumbass.
May 30th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
surf beside it? LOL! become best buds, then when the surfer turns his back, LUNCH!
May 30th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
ya, and how the hell would u get that shark back in the beach? you would need like 100 people to pull it
May 30th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
At first I was like wtf stop standing there and help it back in the water but then I realised it was already dead lol
May 30th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
think it was already dead, its mouth moving was from the tide
May 30th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
yeah you try pushing a ton of pound back into the water thats pushing against…seems like your the stupid one.
May 30th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
HAHA
May 30th, 2010 at 11:17 pm
It weighs 2 tonnes.
It would just float back onto the shore.
It would pose a hazard to fishermen and other water-based activities.
May 30th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
HAHAHA Nice pic Jeannie. Question was you out there to see dat shark?
May 31st, 2010 at 12:47 am
stupid people why dont just push it into the water..!:(