Funny Chesapeake Bay blue crab Jaws movie parody shirt. Forget the shark. Maryland's real predator has eight legs, two claws, and zero respect for your toes. The first report came in on a Tuesday. A waterman off Tilghman Island pulled a pot that was torn open from the inside. Not the bottom. Not the door. The wire mesh itself. He'd been crabbing for 31 years and had never seen anything like it. He didn't file a report. He just went home early.

By Thursday, three more pots were destroyed in the same area. A charter boat captain near the Choptank reported that something hit his anchor line hard enough to shift the bow. DNR was contacted. They sent a team. The team found nothing but a single claw mark on a piling near the dock that measured just over eleven inches across.

The Bay has produced blue crabs up to ten inches for generations. Whatever left that mark was bigger. The watermen know it. The swimmers don't. The beaches are still open. Nobody's closing them over a crab. That's the official position.

Unofficially, nobody's dangling their feet off the dock after dark anymore.

The water's fine. Probably. You're gonna need a bigger pot.