*I just watched the film classic Jaws last week.
It’s STILL the scariest film I’ve ever seen. I still remember seeing it for the first time as a kid. My love of the water is what made it so terrifying, even when I was old enough to realize how fictionalized the story was. I mean, really…a monstrous great white shark terrorizing a coastal resort town? Never.
How about “now!”
The locals on Stewart Island, New Zealand claim that a human feeding frenzy is inevitable. Ever since businesses there started offering shark cage-diving experiences almost ten years ago, they say the sharks that have always been close have gotten much more aggressive. Some have even begun attacking boats.
“We see them all the time and not just one,” says one 72-year-old lifelong resident, who rarely recalls seeing a shark up close while he was growing up. “Sometimes there are three or four surrounding our boats. We are being targeted, and it’s only a matter of time before they get someone.”
A group of islanders have petitioned the city to shut the shark cage-diving operations down. “It’s like Jaws anonymous out there,” says one local fisherman.
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