Now For Something Completely Different: Unprovoked Shark Attack Interactive Map

[TheBlackAdder]

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https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/maps/world-interactive/

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[Hassin Bin Sober]

1. Dumb question. Are there a lot of people provoking shark attacks?

[TheBlackAdder]

2. That's not dumb. Perhaps ask in their feedback link at the bottom.

[Corgigal]

3. Well, here is one. Graphic..cause stupid.

Don't watch if you don't want to see trauma, and dumb humans in one scene.

[DFW]

9. In some cases, yes, people do just that.

On Cape Cod, where we go every summer, the water on the ocean side (only six miles separate the bay from the ocean in Truro) used to be too cold to attract large numbers of seals, and therefore the sharks that eat them. In recent years, however, the water has warmed considerably. The number of seals has exploded geometrically, and so has the number of great whites suddenly showing up. Last year had the first great white attack on a human on our favorite beach ever, and we have been going there every year since 1984. Down the road two miles in Wellfleet had the first fatal shark attack in 80 years.

The guy who got attacked on our beach (Long Nook) had a black wet suit on, and swam out farther than is recommended because it was in the lane where the seals usually swim up from Chatham to High Head Beach, where there is a huge seal colony. To a shark, he just looked like a misshapen/distressed seal in a place where there are usually a lot of seals, and it was at a time of day (early evening) when sharks hunt. He might as well have hung a sign from his waist in Sharkese saying "come and get it!"

[DavidDvorkin]

4. Whew! Looks like I'm safe in Denver.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

7. ARE YOU SAFE FROM PUMAS, WHICH AVOID HUMANS AT ALL COSTS? CHECK MY LAST POST!

[DavidDvorkin]

10. I've never seen one, so therefore they don't exist.

[milestogo]

5. Wow, it hardly ever happens away from land!