It’s more than likely that the culprit was a bull shark although the eyewitness reports indicate that the shark’s behaviour fits the Great White. Bull sharks do not spy-hop, and Great White sharks do.

I have always wondered whether there might have been less rainfall that year. If there had been, there could have been salt water intrusion farther up the creek and the water would have been more saline. This could mean a Great White shark could have penetrated the creek that far upstream in 1916 without uremic shock. This would explain the actions of the shark and the eyewitness reports as well. Alas, we may never know the answers.

Perhaps you should stow your own misogynistic attitude. There’s no place for that in science.

It happened. It was a bull shark and the man died. The shark bit off his leg. He died of blood loss, exsanguination, hypovolemia. In other words, he bled out because of the severed artery in his leg. He was not run over by a boat. A fish bit off his limb.

That sensation you’re feeling? It’s called denial.

There are many between salt water and the Great Lakes, including in the Great Lakes.

Still not afraid to swim or surf the waters, though.

Believe me or not, I called and inquired whether this was a confirmed attack. I spoke to Mr Burgess and it was verified. The shark removed the man’s leg and he exsanguinated, perishing from blood loss.

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/isaf/isafabout.htm

For all we know there could be a breeding population of bull sharks established in the Great Lakes, marooned there thousands of years ago when the waters receded. Here in Florida we have one of the few populations of freshwater stingrays in the world. They, too, were marooned when the glaciers retreated and they live in freshwater springs here. Over millions of years they adapted from salt water to fresh water. Notice the millions of years it took for the changes to happen.

(BTW, myesh = peridot2, somehow one registration on one board got connected with another, no idea how that happened)