In this month of August, bathers at Rockaway Beach must get used to the hum of a drone that circles the beach several times a day. The machine crisscrosses the air to spot any sharks swimming too close to the coast and allow swimmers to be alerted. On August 7, off this same beach, a shark had seriously injured a fifty-year-old woman in the leg. An extremely rare attack in this sector which prompted the authorities to deploy this surveillance drone. In recent weeks, more and more shark sightings have taken place near the New York coast.
“We’re not going to stop surfing because of this one incident,” says surf school owner Christopher Sheehy. The last shark attack reported in the Rockaways dates back in fact… to 1958. For Hans Walters, researcher at the New York Aquarium, “the most interesting thing for me is not the frequency of the attacks, but the frequency at which they do not take place”.
2023-08-19 11:51:00
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