Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 inspiration for "Jaws"—may be the lesser known bull shark." Biologists George A. Llano and Richard Ellis suggest that a bull shark could have been responsible for the fatal Jersey Shore attacks. Bull sharks swim from the ocean into freshwater rivers and streams and have attacked people around the world. In his book "Sharks: Attacks on Man" (1975), Llano writes, Ellis points out that the great white "is an oceanic species, and Schleisser's shark was caught in the ocean. To find it swimming in a tidal creek is, to say the least, unusual, and may even be impossible. The bull shark,
White Shark (novel) White Shark (novel) White Shark is a 1994 novel by author Peter Benchley, famous for "Jaws", "The Island", "Beast" and "The Deep". It is similar to "Jaws", but it does not feature a shark, despite what the title suggests. To avoid confusion and to capitalize on the movie adaptation, the book was republished as "Creature" in 1997. At the close of World War II, Nazi scientist Ernst Kruger perfects a biological weapon he calls "Der Weiss Hai" ("the White Shark"). The weapon is packed in a casket-like box and loaded aboard a German submarine to escape the Allied capture of