Victim of the first in the series of shark attacks that terrorized the shores of New Jersey. Vansant was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and worked as a broker with Philadelphia's Folwell Brothers Brokerage Firm. Vansant took a train from West Philadelphia to Beach Haven. It is there that he was attacked by a shark while swimming in the Atlantic Ocean.Vansant died from a severed femoral artery. More shark attacks would occur that July 4th week of 1916.This incident inspired the book "Jaws" to be written.
Victim of the first in the series of shark attacks that terrorized the shores of New Jersey. Vansant was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and worked as a broker with Philadelphia's Folwell Brothers Brokerage Firm. Vansant took a train from West Philadelphia to Beach Haven. It is there that he was attacked by a shark while swimming in the Atlantic Ocean.Vansant died from a severed femoral artery. More shark attacks would occur that July 4th week of 1916.This incident inspired the book "Jaws" to be written.
