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) of a science lab. It starred Craig T. Nelson as Simon Chase and Kim Cattrall as Dr. Amanda Mason (instead of Macy). It was primarily filmed on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia and in Vancouver. To take advantage of the movie's publicity and to avoid confusion with sharks, the book was republished as "Creature" in 1997. 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