Sussex Sharks c. 1785 "On a warm afternoon, a man on Brighton (then called Brighthelmstone) beach, seeing the sea was calm, ventured in further than usual. "He had not been long diverting himself in the water," according to a letter printed in the Morning Herald newspaper, "before he heard a noise, and discovered the fins of a fish above the surface of the water, which he soon perceived approached him very fast." "The man ran back on to the beach, where "a large tiger shark plunged after him with that violence, that it forced itself entirely out of the water on dry land". The animal, with "no power of retreating", got stuck. The man gathered fellow beach-goers who hacked it to death with axes."

Sussex Sharks c. 1785 "On a warm afternoon, a man on Brighton (then called Brighthelmstone) beach, seeing the sea was calm, ventured in further than usual. "He had not been long diverting himself in the water," according to a letter printed in the Morning Herald newspaper, "before he heard a noise, and discovered the fins of a fish above the surface of the water, which he soon perceived approached him very fast." "The man ran back on to the beach, where "a large tiger shark plunged after him with that violence, that it forced itself entirely out of the water on dry land". The animal, with "no power of retreating", got stuck. The man gathered fellow beach-goers who hacked it to death with axes."
by Jeffrey Louis-Reed

September 07, 2015 at 04:52AM
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