there were shark attacks, jersey shore in 1912?
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The attacks occurred in 1916.  Four people were killed, including one child.  One man was killed while attempting to locate the body of the young boy. Interestingly, three of the victims were attacked not in the ocean, but in a local creek.  Apparently, the creek fed into the sea, and the shark eventually made its way up the creek to a well-known swimming area.  Check out Richard G. Fernicola’s book Twelve Days of Terror.
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Really rare. It's nothing to really be afraid of only if you have a cut on you. If you have a cut I would storngly recommend staying out of the ocean for both your own and the public's safety since blood can attract sharks from miles away. This is why shark fishers dump blood and guts in the water when they're fishing for sharks.
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coming out a sharks tale lol
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I don't know, leave yahoo! answers and look it up online? Just a guess. Type "army bases new jersey" into the search engine. Duh.
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be carefull whom you get involved with on this site, there are a lot of sharks on it and opertunist
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You have heard of the New Jersey Devils Hockey Team right? Well what few people outside of the state of NJ know is that the name of the team is based on an old myth some 200 or so years ago. Something about the deformed then abandoned 13th child of some preacher's wife in Southern New Jersey. He was cursed and became this horrible devil-like creature that haunts the Pine Barrens of South Jersey to this day. \nThis link can probably shed more light on the subject than I could. \nhttp://theshadowlands.net/jd.htm
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Sometimes I think about that while swimming in a pool. Creepy, even though I know there shouldn't be a problem. Also, there probably aren't any sharks in Lake Erie.
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"There are few reported shark attacks on women, and there are no data to support the belief that menstruating females are at an increased risk for shark attacks. But we went to an oceanographer and here is his take on the issue! It has been recommended that a menstruating woman should abstain from swimming in areas where sharks are nearby in order to minimize the risks of attracting sharks. This assumes, of course, that her flow is somehow getting into the water, and with the options available to women today this may not be the case. But it is possible for sharks to sense these fluids and investigate further. Assume that sharks might do this, and common sense should dictate the rules.  So, swimming when you are menstruating is fine as long as you are using a tampon!"\n\ntaken directly from:\nhttp://www.beinggirl.com/en_US/pages/questiondetail.jsp?ContentId=ASK286\n\ncheck out this website as well:\nhttp://home.vicnet.net.au/~dandoc/pdfdoc/women2.pdf\n\nit states:\n"This is a question which diving instructors are frequently asked by female divers, or their concerned partners, and it is one of the most frequently asked questions on the Divers Alert Network website. In reality, the average blood lost during\nmenstruation is so small amounting to just a few mls per dive (50-150 mls occurring over several days) that the loss is insignificant.\nWith the use of tampons, there is no external blood\nloss anyway. Also, it is known that many shark species are not attracted to the blood and other debris found in menstrual flow and Dr Carl Edmonds has even speculated that this may be due to a repellent effect of some component in menstrual blood. In reality, the chance of being attacked during your menstrual period is probably far less than from activities such as spear-fishing. There are few reported shark attacks on\nwomen, and there are no data to support the belief that menstruating females are at an increased risk for shark attacks."
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Yeah; there was a bar fight in Halifax and an American sailor ws stabbed and killed.  As a Canadian I am so sorry that happened.  :(\n\nhttp://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/11/05/sailor-killed.html
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New Jersey and Nevada
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There are sharks in all seas and oceans aaround the world. \n\nThere are many species of sharks found in the Mediterranean, especially in the western and central Med - including Hammerheads and Great Whites. Unfortunately the numbers of these sharks, of all sharks in the med, are in great decline and in many areas the numbers are close to non-existent. The culprit for this is commercial fishing (for blackfinn tuna and swordfish - both as a result of being caught in netsAND having their natural food sources depleted, in some cases to extinction - bluefin tuna became extinct in the Med in the 1940's)and, ironically enough, tourism. Especilly around Croatia in the late 90's there were several 'Jaws Tours'operating. The 'chumming' undertaken to attract sharks obviously attracted sharks into tourist areas which resulted in the culling of many, many sharks so as not to endanger tourism!\n\nSo, yes, there are sharks in the Med but I wouldn't be put of swimming in the Med as shark attacks here are almost non existent. Between 1508 and 2004 therewere a total of 38 shark attacks in European/Mediterranean waters. 18 of which were fatal with the last reported fatal shark attack being in 1984.  \n\nBut please get your friend to put the possibility of shark attack into persective. WORLDWIDE shark attacks between 1508 and 2004 totalled 1,986 of which 486 were fatal - in almost 500 YEARS! More people have been killed by deers running into their cars than by sharks!
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Funny. I think being shredded by a great white could be much more painful, but the plane diving towards the ground from 40,000 feet at 400 mph is one of my biggest fears. I have to take Valium if I fly and that's only been once since a terrible experience in 1996. I cant imagine plummeting to my death like that. If I had the choice, I think I'd choose the shark. I've heard that shark attacks happen so fast that you don't even know what is happening to you and some victims of attacks claim that they didn't feel pain until coming out of the water. I figure I'd be dead before I was mutilated.
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The two-ton shark arrives so fast that there is little a person can do to swim away!\n\nA guy called McCosker and his co-researchers say they have interviewed every single living shark attack victim in the West Coast. \n\n"None of the living victims ever saw the shark in advance," he said. "It all happens too fast." \n\nBesides that, believe it or not:\n\nMore people get killed by falling coconuts than by shark attacks.\n\nAlltogether there are only 106 known attacks on the WHOLE West Coast!!!! \nThe only recorded shark attack in San Francisco was on May 7, 1959, when college student Albert Kogler was bitten twice -- and died -- while swimming off Baker Beach.
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Yes sharks kill people unless a person shoves another person in a sharks mouth
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There is.  The  Le Terrace Swim Club is located in Nutley. \n\nThe owners of that club violated NJ discrimination laws when they turned away "black" and "brown-skinned" customers and guests will pay $1,000,000 to settle a lawsuit brought against them by the ACLU of NJ who filed the case on behalf of six plaintiffs who were denied entry to the pool or who were retaliated against for defending the rights of others to enter.  \n\nMarci Shepard, was a teenager when her father died and she was invited to live with a couple for whom she had previously worked as a mother's helper. After joining Le Terrace in May of 2001, the family brought Marci to the club as their guest. An employee would not let Marci in, claiming that no more guests were being permitted that day. While the woman went to discuss the matter with the owner, the employee permitted a member and that member's white guest to enter the facilities. The family off the premises.\n\nYou can read all about it at the ACLU Website.\n\nThanks for sending me on this research...it's hard to believe stuff like this still goes on today (this case was decided in 2004) in the USA.
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What part of Jersey? \n\nIn Margate there is "Lucy the Elephant" a building shaped like an elephant! There are a ton of wineries, sandy beaches, farms and swampland! \n\nThere are also scenic trains to have the ceremony on! \n\nHave fun!
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There were two Boston tea parties! \n\n      Everyone knows how 50 or 60 "Sons of Liberty," disguised as Mohawks, protested the 3 cents per pound British tax on tea by dumping chests of the popular drink into Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773. Fewer know that the improper Bostonians repeated the performance on March 7, 1774. The two tea parties cost the British around $3 million in modern money\n\n\n History's first submarine attack took place in New York Harbor in 1776! \n\n      The Connecticut inventor David Bushnell called his submarine the Turtle because it resembled two large tortoise shells of equal size joined together. The watertight hull was made of 6-inch-thick oak timbers coated with tar. On September 6, 1776, the Turtle targeted the HMS Eagle, flagship of the British fleet. The submarine was supposed to secure a cask of gunpowder to the hull of the Eagle and sneak away before it exploded. Unfortunately, the Turtle got entangled with the Eagle's rudder bar, lost ballast and surfaced before the gunpowder could be planted. \n\nBenedict Arnold was the best general in the Continental Army! \n\n      "Without Benedict Arnold in the first three years of the war," says the historian George Neumann, "we would probably have lost the Revolution." In 1775, the future traitor came within a whisker of conquering Canada. In 1776, he built a fleet and fought a bigger British fleet to a standstill on Lake Champlain. At Saratoga in 1777, his brilliant battlefield leadership forced the British army to surrender. The victory persuaded the French to join the war on the American side. Ironically, Arnold switched sides in 1780 partly because he disapproved of the French alliance\n\n By 1779, as many as one in seven Americans in Washington's army was black! \n\n      At first Washington was hesitant about enlisting blacks. But when he heard they had fought well at Bunker Hill, he changed his mind. The all-black First Rhode Island Regiment -- composed of 33 freedmen and 92 slaves who were promised freedom if they served until the end of the war -- distinguished itself in the Battle of Newport. Later, they were all but wiped out in a British attack. \nThere were women in the Continental Army, even a few who saw combat! \n\n      Probably the best known is Mary Ludwig Hays, nicknamed "Molly Pitcher." She replaced her wounded husband at his cannon during the Battle of Monmouth in 1778. Another wife of an artilleryman, Margaret Corbin, was badly wounded serving in her husband's gun crew at the Battle of Harlem Heights in 1776. Thousands of other women served in Washington's army as cooks and nurses.\n\nBy 1779, there were more Americans fighting with the British than with Washington! \n\n      There were no less than 21 regiments (estimated to total 6,500 to 8,000 men) of loyalists in the British army. Washington reported a field army of 3,468. About a third of Americans opposed the Revolution. \n\nKing George almost abdicated the throne when the British lost! \n\n      After Yorktown, George III vowed to keep fighting. When parliament demurred, the King wrote a letter of abdication -- then withdrew it. He tried to console himself with the thought that Washington would become a dictator and make the Americans long for royal rule. When he was told that Washington planned to resign his commission, the monarch gasped: "If he does that, sir, he will be the greatest man in the world