Community | July 15, 2009 | 23 comments

5,000-pound shark washes ashore on Long Island

source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/14/new.york.shark.beached/index.html

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- A 26-foot-long dying shark washed ashore Tuesday on a Long Island beach, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation said.

The basking shark that washed ashore on Long Island, New York, on Tuesday was 26 feet, 6 inches long.

The male basking shark, which weighed an estimated 5,000 pounds and was measured at 26 feet, 6 inches, died shortly after authorities arrived on the scene, according to marine educator Tracy Marcus of the Cornell Cooperative Extension.

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