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As the national media descended on Beach Haven, Spring Lake, and Matawan, the Jersey Shore attacks started a shark panic. [14] According to Capuzzo, this panic was "unrivaled in American history", "sweeping along the coasts of New York and New Jersey and spreading by telephone and wireless, letter and postcard."
During the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, the creek was made infamous due to the shark attacks on July 12, 1916, occurring 1.5 miles (2.5 km) from the ocean. A shark killed 11-year-old Lester Stillwell and his 24-year-old would-be rescuer Stanley Fisher and severely injured 14-year-old Joseph Dunn later that same day.
Attacked while trying to recover Lester Stillwell's body in Matawan Creek, New Jersey, Fisher died at Monmouth Hospital in Long Branch, New Jersey, a few hours after the attack. [50] J.L. Hanscom: October 11, 1916: Unknown: Hanscom caught a “large shark” in a net off the coast of Sewall's Point, Florida, in the morning. He attempted to take ...
Just offshore: Anne Bonny, a great white shark, returns to New Jersey coast. 91 bites, 14 deaths in 2023. The Florida Museum of Natural History, which logs all the shark attacks worldwide in its ...
Shark attacks in New Jersey. The last known shark attack at the Jersey Shore was reported in 2023 when 15-year-old Maggie Drozdowski of Pennsylvania was bitten and pulled underwater while surfing ...
Based on a true story, it revolves around the 1916 Jersey shark attacks, as recounted in the book of the same name by Richard Fernicola, in which a juvenile great white shark begins a series of attacks that takes place of the course of 12 days in New Jersey.
In New Jersey, the most recent shark bite incident was last May, when a 15-year old girl was bit on the foot while surfing in Stone Harbor and survived. The species of shark was never identified.
The Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 killed four people in the first two weeks of July 1916 along the New Jersey shore and Matawan Creek in New Jersey. They are generally credited as the beginning of media attention on shark attacks in the United States of America. [91]