New York City beach closed after woman suffers shark bite

New York City closed its fashionable Rockaway Beach connected Tuesday aft a 50-year-old pistillate was bitten by a shark Monday evening, officials said.

The pistillate was swimming adjacent Beach 59th Street erstwhile a shark spot her leg, New York City Parks officials said.

Lifeguards took the pistillate retired of the h2o and gave her archetypal assistance earlier she was taken to the hospital.

Officials said she is successful captious but unchangeable condition, with a heavy chopped successful her thigh.

The incidental marks the archetypal confirmed shark wound connected Rockaway Beach successful caller memory, the parks section said.

"We anticipation for a afloat betterment for this swimmer," the parks section said successful a statement. "Though this was a frightening event, we privation to punctual New Yorkers that shark bites successful Rockaway are highly rare."

The authorities of New York has seen a spate of quality encounters with sharks disconnected its Long Island beaches this summer. Experts accidental much sharks are swimming person to the enactment owed to warming waters from clime alteration and a caller instrumentality successful New York protecting sharks' superior nutrient source, bunker fish.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has been sending much drones to section officials to scan for sharks adjacent the enactment truthful lifeguards tin instrumentality precautions if needed.

After the shark wound connected Monday, helicopters searched the waters for sharks but did not find any, the parks section said. New York City's occurrence and constabulary departments volition proceed to hunt the waters, and the formation volition stay closed to some surfers and swimmers connected Tuesday.

Experts accidental shark attacks are highly infrequent. According to the International Shark Attack File, New York authorities had lone 8 unprovoked bites successful 2022, and nary proved fatal.