The Famous Man-Eater Shark Who Inspired the Movie ‘Jaws’
And you thought animals were barely an inspiration
The Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 were so unexpected so sudden and so violent that they stuck in the public eye like a splinter and never really left the model one maneater as the shark was called claimed between three and five human lies before the killings finally stop and by that time the word sharp had taken on a dark significance among beachgoers.
Five People Were Attacked by a Shark at the Jersey Shore
Once Upon a time there was a killer shark that terrorized the shores of the Garden State for 12 horrible days.
Chief Brody’S shark story, while not as soul punishing as Quint’s, is no less true.
It began with the death, not of a skinny dipper, but a finance broker named Charles Vansant. He was swimming at the Atlantic one hot July day when a sharp took a bite out of his leg and fatally severed his femoral artery.
The creature was bizarrely aggressive following a stolen prize as rescuers dragged it to shore. The whole thing was just so darn weird officials declared that it could only have been a freak accident.
