The shark mania that grips the country each summer began July 1, 1916, when a young stockbroker from Philadelphia headed into the surf at Beach Haven, N.J. Before then, there wasn’t much fear about attacks from the deep among the innocents at the Jersey Shore.
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U.S. shark mania began with this attack more than a century ago
July 25, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EDT