An 11-foot great white shark surfaced off the coast of New Jersey on the first day of summer. It coincided with the 1975 release of Spielberg's 'Jaws' ...

July 20-26 marks Shark Week 2025, an annual celebration that takes place on the Discovery Channel. Throughout the week, the ...

But before the fictional story of a killer shark terrorizing a sleepy beach town, there was the very real summer of 1916 at the Jersey Shore. Five shark attacks in less than two weeks that left four ...

2. Jersey Shore Attacks of 1916 There was a string of shark attacks along the Jersey shore in July 1916, eerily similar to the movie “Jaws”.

The ISAF has tracked shark attacks in the U.S. as far back as the early 1800s – long before the 1916 shark attacks along the New Jersey coast inspired the "Jaws" novel and movie.