Tobay Beach on Long Island is open to swimmers after a shark sighting shut it down on Thursday.
LONG ISLAND -- Tobay Beach has reopened to swimmers after a shark sighting shut it down on Thursday.
On Sunday, a few miles away at Robert Moses State Park, beachgoers recorded videos on their cell phones of a shark near the shore."I think it's like pretty crazy with like everything that's happening," beachgoer Luke Benanti said. "lf they really were to bite and wanted to eat us, we would be losing limbs and have a lot more external damages, to us really from a lot of the attacks because sharks are extremely powerful animals," Tilkin said.Lifeguard Zach Gallo was bit in his hand and chest at Smith Point Beach and said he was repeatedly punched the shark to defend himself.
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