First Great White Shark of season spotted gliding through clear Montauk waters: video

Here’s quite a fish tale.A majestic Great White Shark was seen swimming along the shores of Montauk this week — a sighting that marks the beginning of the summer season.The viral drone footage showed the massive beast gliding close to the shores of Long Island’s most eastern point around 8:30 a.m.on Monday, with nothing but clear green water surrounding it.The “beauty” was seen just a few hundred feet from the coast and was moving at a leisurely 3.5 mph — just a fraction of its 35 mph capacity, according to the videographer.“For me this was super exciting, as I have been flying these waters for 8 years and this is the earliest shark spotting I have had in a season and it is also the closest to shore I have spotted a great white,” Joanna L.

Steidle wrote on X.The video quickly caught the attention of thousands — who were amazed at the incredible footage, and some who were concerned that the shark might have been swimming in popular wading waters earlier in the spring season than typical.But according to experts, the sighting is nothing short of “absolutely normal.”“It is very, very expected this time of the year that the white sharks are moving through the Long Island waters,” Greg Metzger, the chief field coordinator of the South Fork Natural History Museum & Nature Center’s Shark research program, told The Post.“Nothing unusual, nothing strange.All just part of what they do every year for as long as we know they’ve been here.”The shark didn’t appear to be hunting in the video, but the Montauk coast is a popular feeding ground for Great White Sharks, he explained.It’s tough to tell from the short clip, but Metzger estimated that the shark was a juvenile and 8 feet in length.There are sharks in Long Island waters year-round, but spring is typically when marine life, including Great White populations, sees a boom.There has been an increase in sightings in recent years for a number of reasons, according to Metzger — one of ...