New Smyrna Beach, a surfing hub south of Daytona Beach, is widely known as the “Shark Bite Capital of the World,” according to WESH and The Daytona Beach News-Journal. Less than two weeks before the July 18 attack, a man identified as Matthew Bender was bitten by a shark while surfing in the Florida city, per FOX 35.

A woman found a rare Megalodon tooth on a Florida beach. It once belonged to a massive prehistoric shark that roamed the ocean millions of years ago.