I had read about the 1916 attacks, but have never read about this case. Interesting. I live hundreds of miles from the Ocean on the West coast so I don’t see it more than once a year if that.
But I do remember my late Father, a champion swimmer at high school in the 1930s, taking me swimming offshore when I was a boy. He taught me to swim well when I was very young, and we would go way out beyond the breakers and then swim about a quarter mile along the coast before coming back ashore.
I thought nothing of sharks in those days even though I spotted a few 3 foot sand sharks near shore a time or two. Then when the movie “Jaws” came out when I was 25 and everything changed. Not to mention all the Shark specials on TV since then. Now you couldn’t get to wade more than ankle deep in the Ocean.
No doubt Jaws got into the thinking of many people.
One of the people we regularly took out on fishing charters was an avid diver who lived in Truro and dove in Provinceown.
He stopped diving there; when a few years ago he had a white shark glide by him while he was gathering lobsters.
He is doing his diving now in the winter months. -Tom
Oh Wow. I grew up in Detroit but Cape Cod was our summer vacation. I never went out as far as you did! That was before Jaws. Yet I spent the rest of those summers waterskiing in a lake. I just never would have gone out where you did to swim. Such courage.