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Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916
The
Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916
were a series of
shark attacks
along the coast of
New Jersey
, in the
United States
, between July 1 and July 12, 1916, in which four people were killed and one injured. Since 1916, scholars have debated which shark species was responsible and the number of animals involved, with the
great white shark
and the
bull shark
most frequently cited. The incidents occurred during a deadly summer
heat wave
and
polio
epidemic in the
Northeastern United States
that drove thousands of people to the seaside
resorts
of the
Jersey Shore
.
Shark bites
on the
Atlantic Coast of the United States
outside the
semitropical
states of
Florida
,
Georgia
, and
the Carolinas
were rare, but scholars believe that the increased presence of sharks and humans in the water led to them in 1916.
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