Watch: Sandbar shark swims off Rhode Island coast as numbers increase across New England

Name: Watch: Sandbar shark swims off Rhode Island coast as numbers increase across New England
Uploaded: 2026-08-24T16:46:13Z
Duration: 27 s
Description: Sandbar sharks are making waves across Southern New England and Long Island’s South Shore this summer as numbers have surged. Underwater video shows a brown shark—also known as a sandbar shark—swimming off Block Island, Rhode Island.

FWX · Aired Aug 24 · 27s

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Sandbar sharks are making waves across Southern New England and Long Island’s South Shore this summer as numbers have surged. Underwater video shows a brown shark—also known as a sandbar shark—swimming off Block Island, Rhode Island.