Video shows a close encounter with a great white shark off the Jersey Shore. tedgreenbergNBC has the details on the incredible moment as well as a movie featured at LighthouseFilm that focuses on a series of deadly shark attacks more than a century ago:
New video shows a close encounter between a great white shark and people on a fishing trip off the Jersey Shore.
Mike Cavallo was fishing with his daughter and a friend a few miles off Point Pleasant Beach on Friday. After Cavallo hooked a black sea bass, a great white shark unsuccessfully tried to chomp the fish. It was a moment caught on camera that Cavallo will never forget. “Complete shock. I never thought in my life I would see a great white up that close or even a shark up that close,” Cavallo said.
There is currently a renewed focus on sharks at the Jersey Shore. The 2004 made-for-tv docudrama “12 Days of Terror -- which is based on a series of deadly shark attacks on Long Beach island and other parts of the Shore back in 1916 -- is currently being featured at the annual Lighthouse International Film Festival on LBI which runs through Sunday.Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters.“When you make something for television, you don’t get to see it with an audience,” Sholder said.
The movie was filmed in Cape Town, South Africa, rather than New Jersey. Sholder said he spent all of his summers as a child at the Jersey Shore however.
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