my step brother caught a 10 ft bull shark right off sandy point beach near the bay bridge night fishing in a 12 boston whaler...about 27 years ago

Maybe it's just me, but I hate jumping in the water knowing there are fish/mammals, most anything with great big razor teeth.

My bro inlaw got bumped pretty good off Marco. **** happens when you enter another creatures domain...

Here are pictures from the website of the shark called "Mary Lee", this is one big f*ckin fish! I would not want to be in the water when that beast is near.

if you really knew you would never get in the water again. I have flown in choppers along the coast several times and looked down at people in the water with sharks swimming several feet from them. we flew down the coast line from panama city to biloxi and saw dozens of sharks, huge schools of sting rays and dolphins all with in 20 feet of shore. there were not many people in the water at that time but there were some near the sting rays and the rays would come within a few feet of the swimmers. there was a picture years ago off a Texas beach and there were six or seven sharks swimming between the people in the water in about 3 feet of water depth.

That is not very reassuring....but I do believe you, and have heard similar reports....can't live in fear, but we (I) still need to use good judgment and common sense when swimming in salt-water. I am not sure what the likelihood of getting attacked by a shark, or killed by a shark, cannot be that high, I cannot remember the last time someone was attacked by a shark in New Jersey waters so I will continue to enjoy the ocean and bays, and just hope I am not fish food.

It would suck just a part of you being shark food.

I mean really, really, really suck. It happens far more often than published. JAWS

That shark was caught less than a mile from Jacksonville shoreline .Anytime you fly low over the coast you see the sharks only yards away from the swimmers. Hence I don't swim in the ocean anymore.

If you had me up in the plane and I saw first hand what you are describing, I know the only time I would set foot in the water again is when it would when it is chlorinated ie the swimming pool. A shark that big caught less than a mile from the shoreline is troubling to me.

Smarty
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