- Shark attacks are in the news again, but plenty of other . . .
In Florida, where the majority of US shark attacks happen, people were nearly 21 times more likely to die in a tornado (125 deaths) than a shark bite (six deaths) between 1985 and 2010
- Despite more great white sharks, attacks on humans rare
In the United States, there were 106 confirmed, unprovoked great white shark attacks, including 13 fatalities, from 1916 to 2011, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History's Shark Attack
- The 9 Most Shark-Infested Beaches On Earth - A-Z Animals
According to the BBC, there were problems with the new port, particularly for bull sharks In Pernambuco, Brazil, there have been 59 shark attacks since 1931 According to shark attack data, 27 of them resulted in fatalities, with the most current one being in 2013 Gansbaai, South Africa
- Red Triangle (Pacific Ocean) - Wikipedia
The movement of sharks and other large marine animals in this region were studied starting in 1999 under the Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) program, an international collaboration [5] TOPP found that white sharks in the Red Triangle are genetically distinct from others in the Pacific Ocean, such as those found off Australia
- Florida ranked highest in world for shark bites in 2023 . . .
Florida ranks No 1 for shark bites in the US Thirty-six shark bites were reported in the U S in 2023 – the most in the world – and Florida accounted for nearly half of them with 16
- Florida Keys: Boy has part of leg amputated after shark . . . - CNN
Last year, 73 unprovoked shark attacks were confirmed worldwide That’s in line with a five-year average of 72 from 2016 to 2020, according to a January report by the Florida Museum of Natural
- Shark Attacks Occuring Early in Hawai’i – Shark Stewards
*Provoked incidents are defined by the International Shark Attack File as occurring “when a human initiates physical contact with a shark, e g a diver bit after grabbing a shark, a fisher bit while removing a shark from a net, and attacks on spearfishers and those feeding sharks ”
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