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AbstractForty years after Jaws, sharks have become savable subjects. Through public advocacy and personal adventures, shark conservationists claim these animals are not monstrous, but misunderstood. On rare occasions, the success of their advocacy is tempered by a fatal encounter, or "attack." When this happens, multiple intentionalities emerge around the aesthetic category of the monstrous. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research in Western Australia, New England, and South Florida, this article examines these ways of being‐toward‐sharks in ongoing colonial contexts, and asks what is at stake when humans enter the sea alongside these large predatory animals.