Exclusive beach town torn apart by shark attack: ‘Never quite the same’

nypost.com:

engineering student Arthur Medici was boogie-boarding in the waters off Wellfleet, Massachusetts — one of the most sought-after addresses on Cape Cod — when he was attacked by a great white shark.The stealth-wealth seasonal retreat has yet to recover from the traumatic event, according to locals interviewed in a new HBO documentary “After the Bite,” premiering Wednesday, July 26 (10 p.m.). “I saw the blood … I went in [to the water].

A wave came up over Arthur’s face, I got underneath and pulled him up on top of me,” town resident Mitzi Riley told interviewers. “I did look down at one point and saw that his legs were laced open, but … all the blood was long gone [washed away].

I…cried and waited for help to come. I had no clue what the hell had just happened. There was no helping this poor boy,” she recalled.“After The Bite” chronicles the incident and the aftermath, showing the impact on quietly tony Wellfleet, where the average home value tops $900,000, according to Zillow.

Interviews range from lifeguards who are trying to keep the summer season upbeat but safe, to local fishermen and their tales of seeing “Jaws”-sized beasts in the water, to the scientists trying to tag the sharks and study their behavior.