Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 Summary
Michael Capuzzo

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Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 Summary

Close to Shore - The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 provides the chronicle of the attacks by a great white shark off the Jersey shoreline in the summer of 1916. The first victim during that steamy hot July was Charles Vansant. The son of a prestigious Philadelphia physician, Charles was swimming with his retriever off the coast of Beach Haven when a large marine animal pulled him under the water. He struggled with...

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