Five people reported being bitten by sharks over two days this week at some of New York's most popular beaches, leading to heightened surveillance of the area's waters.
"Despite the nervousness over what’s going on right now in New York, people swim in the ocean every day, and they have for centuries," he said. "But we do have to remember that we are cohabitating, and this is their house."
As he operated one of the drones from the beach, he stared into a small box equipped with controls and a display screen. The craft lifted off, hovering over the sand until it hurled forward over the water and turned into a mere dot as it approached the horizon. From his elevated perch Thursday on the sand at Jones Beach State Park, lifeguard Carl Nowicki pointed his gaze out to sea, scanning the water for activity that might attract a hungry shark, such as large schools of bait fish."If a drone has spotted a shark, we won’t alert the patrons until they’re all of the water because we don’t want them to freak out," he said. "We’ll be very transparent once everyone’s on the sand. We don’t want to cause a panic at a beach.
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