<sod>The '''Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916''' were a series of [[shark attacks]] along the coast of [[New Jersey]], in the [[United States]], between July 1 and July 12, 1916, in which four people were killed and one injured. Since 1916, scholars have debated which shark species was responsible and the number of animals involved, with the [[great white shark]] and the [[bull shark]] most frequently cited. The incidents occurred during a deadly summer [[heat wave]] and [[Poliomyelitis|polio]] epidemic in the [[Northeastern United States]] that drove thousands of people to the seaside [[resort]]s of the [[Jersey Shore]]. [[List of fatal, unprovoked shark attacks in the United States by decade|Shark attacks]] on the [[East Coast of the United States|Atlantic Coast of the United States]] outside the [[Subtropics|semitropical]] states of [[Florida]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], and [[the Carolinas]] were rare, but scholars believe that the increased presence of sharks and humans in the water led to them in 1916.<eod>
<sod>The '''Jersey Shore shark bite incidents of 1916''' were a series of [[shark attacks]] along the coast of [[New Jersey]], in the [[United States]], between July 1 and July 12, 1916, in which four people were killed and one injured. Since 1916, scholars have debated which shark species was responsible and the number of animals involved, with the [[great white shark]] and the [[bull shark]] most frequently cited. The incidents occurred during a deadly summer [[heat wave]] and [[Poliomyelitis|polio]] epidemic in the [[Northeastern United States]] that drove thousands of people to the seaside [[resort]]s of the [[Jersey Shore]]. [[List of fatal, unprovoked shark attacks in the United States by decade|Shark attacks]] on the [[East Coast of the United States|Atlantic Coast of the United States]] outside the [[Subtropics|semitropical]] states of [[Florida]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], and [[the Carolinas]] were rare, but scholars believe that the increased presence of sharks and humans in the water led to them in 1916.<eod>