"This was not a boat accident!!" (Part Deux)...

On Monday, I noted a diver being attacked and eaten by a Great White Shark off the coast of South Africa.

Today's news is closer to home. A teenage surfer was bitten off the New Jersey coast in what would be the first shark attack in NJ waters in thirty years.

Based on the tooth marks, the season and the location, the shark was likely either a small great white or a sandbar shark, said George Burgess, a Florida expert who is curator of the International Shark Attack File. He had examined an e-mailed photo of HortonÂ’s injury.

Two local experts said they think it was a great white shark.

“In cool water like this, you would have to suspect great white,” said Richard Fernicola, who wrote a book about shark attacks off the New Jersey shore in 1916 that that left four people dead. “A great white is much more likely to be aggressive to man than a sandbar shark.”

Now what else happened thirty years ago? The release of the film "Jaws". And you can now pre-order the "30th Anniversary Edition" of that same movie on DVD due to be released on June 14th. Coincidence?

Hmmmmm.

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