A swimmer’s “bone” was left exposed after what lifeguards believe was a shark attack at Jones Beach Friday afternoon, sources told The Post.
In a scene right out of “Jaws,” the beast chomped on the man’s foot around 12 p.m. at the state park’s Field 6 as the Blue Angels Fourth of July holiday air show soared overhead, witnesses said.
“He came running over to our lifeguard stand … his foot was bleeding and he was saying, ‘I got bit, I got bit! I don’t want to look,’” said lifeguard Kate Maio, who was sitting on the stand and treated the victim.
“The man who got bit said that it felt like a jaw-biting motion and that it went clean through.”
The wound was a single, deep gash that sliced along the man’s toes, exposing the white bone beneath, the lifeguard said.
Maio’s partner jumped from the stand and wrapped the man’s foot in a shirt like a tourniquet, but the slow bleeding suddenly started gushing.
“It was bleeding through the shirt,” she said.
“It was crazy, but these things happen.”
The man had been swimming at the edge of the green flags — which designate the swimmable areas of the beach.
That means he was close to where fishermen set up shop on the shores, Maio explained.
EMS responded to the scene and took him to an area hospital, where lifeguards expect him to make a full recovery.
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