Meet the team looking for what lurks off New York’s beaches. MrJDWalsh reports
A sand shark. Photo: Brian Finke For most New Yorkers, proof that apex predators have returned in large numbers arrived in a series of hair-raising news flashes about shark attacks on beachgoers. The first nibble came in June when a man swimming at Jones Beach suffered a “possible shark bite” to the leg; this incident was quickly followed by five more reports of shark bites happening off Long Island in a three-week span.
Crew members, from left, Brianna Cahill, Lucas Ludica, Charles Garra, Greg Metzger, Brittney Scannell, Walter Zublionis, Anthony Bruno, and Kyle Martin. Photo: Brian Finke Most summer mornings, Metzger meets a rotating crew of graduate students, research technicians, and marine scientists — the Matt Hoopers to Metzger’s Captain Quint — whose organizations charter his boat and shark-tracking services to conduct field work.
Metzger reeling in and tagging a sand shark. Photo: Brian Finke Photo: Brian Finke “Greg doesn’t like to be called a shark expert, but he definitely is,” says Brittney Scannell, a Ph.D. student at Stony Brook University’s marine community ecology lab. “It can be intense when there’s a shark on the boat. There’s no messing around. He cares a lot about keeping the animal safe and doing good science — which is important to us when we’re looking for someone to collaborate with.
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