It looks like those sharks spotted a few weeks ago off Rockaway Beach have decided to stick around for the rest of the summer. One swimmer told the Post, "I was so far out and I heard the lifeguards blowing their whistles. They started yelling, 'Shark! Shark! Shark!'" However, the Parks Department says they believe there were just stingrays. Unless stingrays figured out how to glue large fins to their backs, we're guessing that statement is an attempt at a cover-up.
Swimming was shut down at most of Rockaway Beach yesterday as a precaution. Lifeguards say they spotted 11 sharks, each about three feet in length. They say there was also a school of stingrays in the water, swimming near the sharks. Nobody was injured, and a few swimmers took the sightings in stride. One said, "Its life, we know they live in the water, it's their water, but we don't like them close to us, at all."
