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When their buddy John "JP" Pelligrini (Ben Giroux) disappears after being chased into the water by two Country Club preppies, Bradford (Grant Harvey) and Spencer (Dylan Vox), Guidos (Italian-Americans) Gino Giuseppe Santino "TC" Moretti (Jeremy Luke), Donnie (Joseph Russo), and Paulie Balzac (Daniel Booko) go down to the harbor to investigate and are surprised to find the water swarming with large albino bull sharks. They try to warn the town about the sharks, but no one, not even TC's father, Nick Moretti (Jack Scalia), a policeman for the Seaside Heights Police Department, believes them until famous singer Joey Fatone of N Sync is eaten alive during a performance on the beach.

Jersey Shore Shark Attack was filmed from a screenplay by Michael Ciminera and Richard Glnofo, who built it around an MTV series Bienvenue à Jersey Shore (2009) (2009-2012). The movie does make reference, however, to a true shark attack that took place along the New Jersey shore in 1916.

Dolan Industries is building a new beach club and spa along the shoreline in Seaside Heights. Part of the construction consists of drilling holes in which to sink pylons and cement them in place. It is the drilling that that creates the vibrations which attract the sharks.

"Guido" is a derogatory term for a stereotypical, usually Italian-American, macho male from New Jersey or Brooklyn, New York. Their characteristic wardrobe consists of tracksuits, earrings, gold chains, and gelled hair. When not at their low-paid jobs delivering pizzas, telemarketing, or construction, they can be located at their local gym tanning or lifting weights. The female counterpart is referred to as a "guidette."

Many of the terms, such as paison, gumba, and cugine, are slang words with meanings similar to English pal or bro. A gumad refers to a man's mistress. Other terms refer to common Italian foods, such as gabagool (capicola ham), spuntini (baked meatballs), calzone (a folded pizza, turnover style), grappa (a grape-based Italian brandy), mojito (a cocktail made of rum, sugar, lime juice, mint, and sparkling water), and Pecorino Romano (a type of Italian cheese). At one point, Nooki exclaims, "Madonna Mia!", which translates as "My Lady", referring to the mother of Jesus. It is used as an exclamation of surprise or annoyance. Three other terms heard in the movie are: pazzo (wild), fazool (slang for "money"), and ugatz, which can be translated as a profanity, e.g., "shit" or "cock", implying something worthless, as when Nooki calls TC a "lying sack of steaming ugatz."

TC and his cugines commandeer a police boat and go looking for Bradford's yacht. They find it sinking and surrounded by sharks. After killing several sharks, they evacuate the Preppie partiers, but Nooki is nowhere to be seen. TC searches the yacht and finds her in a flooding cabin with her foot stuck. He breaks her loose, fights off a shark, and they declare their love for each other, TC placing his gold chain around her neck. Meanwhile, sharks have begun attacking the Seaside Heights boardwalk, so the Guidos and Preppies return to fight them off, just in time for TC to save Nick, who has jumped in the water to save a stranded swimmer, by shooting a speargun into the shark's left eye. Realizing that the drill is attracting the sharks, TC turns it off. Everyone cheers as the sharks turn tail and head back out to sea. In the final scene, the seaside radio announcer (JoJo Wright) reports that the drill has been deactivated, the sharks have returned to open water, and all is quiet on the Jersey shore. Suddenly, a shark jumps out of the water and gobbles him up.