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Great White Shark: Kogler was killed while swimming in less than 15 feet (4.6 m) of water off Baker Beach, San Francisco, California. Robert Lyell Pamperin, 33: June 14, 1959: Great White Shark: Pamperin was free-diving with a friend, Gerald Lehrer, 30, for abalone at Alligator Head, La Jolla Cove, La Jolla, California.
The area has a very large population of marine mammals, such as elephant seals, harbor seals, sea otters and sea lions, which are favored prey of great white sharks. [1] Around thirty-eight percent of recorded great white shark attacks on humans in the United States have occurred within the Red Triangle—eleven percent of the worldwide total. [2]
An incident occurred in 2011 when a 3-meter long (~500 kg) great white shark jumped onto a 7-person research vessel off Seal Island, South Africa. The crew were undertaking a population study using sardines as bait and initially retreated to safety in the bow of the ship while the shark thrashed about, damaging equipment and fuel lines. To keep ...
Jekyll, an 8-foot great white shark tagged by research group OCEARCH, surfaced off the coast of Jupiter Island, Florida, days before Super Bowl 2024. ... Most shark attacks happen in Florida.
A 10-foot great white shark, tagged by OCEARCH scientists in 2020, was tracked off the Treasure Coast Saturday night.. The shark, nicknamed Rose, pinged off the Stuart coast at 11:28 p.m., which ...
According to last year's white shark population study, at least 800 individual white sharks visited the waters off Cape Cod over a four-year period, and the team has tagged more than 300 of them.
Great White Shark [304] 2020 5 January Cull Island, Esperance Diving Gary Johnson [305] Male 57 Mauled while scuba diving 13:00 Great White Shark [306] 2020 9 October Kelp beds, Wylie Bay, Esperance Surfing Andrew Sharpe Male 52 Attacked whilst surfing, body never found, witnesses and damage to surfboard confirmed shark attack 16:00 Great White ...
There have been more than 1,200 shark incidents in Australia since 1791, of which 255 resulted in death, official data shows. Great white sharks were responsible for 94 of those deaths.