Matawn Creek, 1916 Shark Attack Location

Matawn Creek, 1916 Shark Attack Location

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• 1916 Shark Attack Location

[anthonyhnj69]

@alwasryt7 please explain why you think that the creek was mostly fresh water. It is a tidal creek and always was a tidal creek.  Low tide water is low, high tide water is high. The main water source is the bay and always was the bay. In the late 1800's the creeks served as a place where boats would come in and take produce to NYC.

[anthonyhnj69]

I have been back in this creek a bunch of times. I have to say that it is more salt than fresh water. At the end of the creek there is a lake with an overflow. That is basically the only fresh water source. As soon as the weather warms up I am going to test the salinity in both high and low tide. Take in mind that these are tidal creeks and even at the very end of the creek near the over flow the water rises with the tide.

[thewipodtouchman]

a white bull shark was most likely to have survived because it can go days with fresh water

[dondawg00]

thanks for posting

[MrsAxlRose1000]

@anthonyhnj69 Salinity tests have shown that at different tidal times the salt levels in the creek can range from 10 parts per 1000 to 25 - 30 parts per 1000. At high tide ( or during a full moon) it is closer to 30 parts per 1000 which is very close to ocean salinity of 35 parts per 1000. This also proves that a great white could survive in these waters as well as a bull shark which is capable of retaining and recycling the salt levels it has in its body - something the great white can't do.

[MrsAxlRose1000]

@cindyandallie  3 boys went swimming but only 1 was attacked by the shark. An 11/12 year old boy named Lester Stillwell. The 2 friends he was with ran for help and a young man named Stanley Fisher jumped in to save him. He too was attacked and killed by the shark.

[cindyandallie]

i think there were actually three people got attacked there, not one

[JAOgc161]

@anthonyhnj69 I also thought it was mostly fresh water. I think a documentary may have said so... which is why so many of us think that. That and the fact that I am perhaps an idiot who makes too many assumptions? I'm going to assume the latter. (Damn. There I go again.)

[BinkMoody]

@alemadrid23 thank you very much :)

[brotherhoodfan11]

@CrazyBoyzxX yes it got shot by a man

[alemadrid23]

@BinkMoody Yes it is Blood in the Water

[BinkMoody]

what was that movie that showed on the discovery channel about this, i loved it and cant seem to find it, was it Blood in the Water, i watched clips of that, the beginning seeems familiar, but i dont remember there being a narriator in the film, any ideas?