Stories about shark attacks always make good reading, but those about sharks being attacked seem to be relatively rare. One of the earliest was reported from just south of Beach Haven by the Philadelphia Public Ledger on July 8, 1842.
“We are informed that while some boys were engaged catching clams on the flats of the bay, at Absecum, N. Jersey, day before yesterday, they espied a large shark in shallow water, supposed to have been left there as the tide receded.
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