Reports of a great white shark stirs fear in New Yorkers
Fears of a “Jaws”-style situation emerged after the three metre-long shark, weighting 240 kg, was detected just off the coast of New York.
The shark, which has been named Cabot, is fitted with an electronic tracking device.
It repeatedly “pinged,” apparently placing the shark in Long Island Sound just off the coastal town of Greenwich, Connecticut, north of New York City.
Ocearch, a marine monitoring group that has been monitoring the shark, said it was the first time they had detected a large great white shark in Long Island Sound.
Ocearch caused mild hysteria when it issued a warning about Cabot’s presence, with its website for the public to track the shark’s progress crashed due to the large amount of users that logged on.
Beaches in the area opened this weekend ahead of the Memorial Day bank holiday on Monday, the unofficial start of summer.
