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Videos: Watch These Separate Whale Sightings Off Long Island Coast Videos: Watch These Separate Whale Sightings Off Long Island Coast
Videos: Watch These Separate Whale Sightings Off Long Island Coast Call them Ishmael? Whales were caught on camera near the South Shore of Long Island, dining off the eels and floating about approximately a half mile off the coast in the Moriches Inlet. According to the man who shot the video that has since gone viral on social media - there were approximately a dozen whales in the area at the time. A second video captured by a different boater, found whales near a boat in the Shinnecock Inlet, approximately 30 miles off the coast. In Shinnecock, the boaters reportedly were tuna fishing around noon on Monday when they spotted the whales. They observed th…

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by Zak Failla
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Great White Shark Tracked In Long Island Sound For First Time Ever, Says Ocean Research Group Great White Shark Tracked In Long Island Sound For First Time Ever, Says Ocean Research Group
Great White Shark Tracked In Long Island Sound For First Time Ever, Says Ocean Research Group Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water. A great white shark has been tracked in the Long Island Sound off the coast of Fairfield County. The shark, named "Cabot," was pinged off the shore of Greenwich just before 11 a.m. Monday, May 20, according to the ocean research group Ocearch.org. iI's the first time ever Ocearch says it tracked a great white in the LI Sound.  "Cabot" weighs 533 pounds and is 9-feet, 8 inches long.  Ocearch.org posted a photo of the great white shark and a map on its Twitter account, saying: "Be advised! For the first t…

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by Joe Lombardi