Danger Zones: Where You're Most Likely to Be Attacked by a Shark - Yahoo Travel
(Photo: Simon Hathaway / Alamy) . A 10-year-old boy was bitten by a shark on Sunday morning as he waded in the water off an East Florida beach. According to officials, it is the 10th shark bite that county authorities have responded to this year. Between 2005 and 2014 there were 701 reported shark attacks globally, 68 of which were fatal. The occurrence of shark attacks, both fatal and otherwise, appears to have increased in recent years, and Florida has the highest rate of attacks anywhere on earth. Around a quarter of all shark attacks in Australia are fatal, and the majority (over a third. In fact, the state was the location for Australia’s most recent fatal attack, which took place just last year. Part of the problem is the proximity of the continental ocean shelf to the shore, as deep water allows the sharks to get closer to the beach — and therefore the population. This small island about 200 kilometers east of Madagascar, in the Indian Ocean, has experienced 10 shark attacks in the past two years, three of which have been fatal. The problem got so bad that authorities even temporarily banned swimming, bodyboarding, and surfing in the waters around the island and implemented a culling process to attempt to reduce the number of sharks close to the shores. Source: www.yahoo.com
