A Navy base employee stepped away from work for a swim in the Florida waters and wound up in the ICU, where he has remained for weeks as friends and strangers rally around his uncertain recovery.

While sharks are commonly found in the waters off the United States, shark bites are rare, according to Gavin Naylor, director of the Florida Museum of Natural History's shark research program.

New York officials say summer shark migration is underway, with more nearshore sightings expected through September.

Crowds still packed the Jones Beach shoreline to cool off, play and see the fireworks Saturday despite recent shark sightings and a bite to a swimmer's foot.

Just in time for the Fourth of July. Phones were lighting up across the region on Thursday with the first shark alert of the season, as vacationers flock to the beach. A great white shark was spotted close to a beach in Chatham,

A shark sighting temporarily forced swimmers out of the water at several Nassau County beaches Thursday, as extreme heat and the start of the Fourth of July holiday weekend drew large crowds to the shoreline.

Discovery Channel is diving back into the deep end.

A young great white shark by the name of Brookes has been tracked moving into the Bay of Fundy, just north of the Maine-Canada border, on July 4.