The second of the five victims of the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, Charles Bruder, 27, a Swiss bellhop for the Essex and Sussex Hotel, was killed on July 6, 1916, while swimming approximately from shore in Spring Lake. The wave of attacks took place between July 1 and July 12, 1916, along of Atlantic Ocean coastline and is often attributed as having inspired the novel "Jaws" by Peter Benchley and the corresponding film by Steven Spielberg, though Benchley has explicitly denied the claim.