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Great white shark: Solorio died after he was bitten on the left side of his upper torso by a great white shark while surfing. The attack occurred at Surf Beach near Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California, just two years (almost to the very day) after a fatal attack in the same location. Authorities from the Santa Barbara ...
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]
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.
The casualties of the 1916 attacks are listed in the International Shark Attack File—of which Burgess is director—as victims of a great white. [ 47 ] The increased presence of humans in the water was a factor in the attacks: "As the worldwide human population continues to rise year after year, so does ... interest in aquatic recreation.
In 2013, WHOI engineers took a specially equipped REMUS SharkCam underwater vehicle to Guadalupe Island off the West Coast of Mexico. Their goal was to track and film great white sharks in the ...
24-year-old Jade Kahukore-Dixon was diving 500 miles east of New Zealand's South Island when the attack happened A man has died after being attacked by a shark near the Chatham Islands in New ...
The 2010 Sharm El Sheikh shark attacks were a series of attacks by sharks on swimmers off the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.On 1 December 2010, three Russians and one Ukrainian were seriously injured within minutes of each other, and, on 5 December 2010, a German woman was killed when she was attacked while wading and snorkeling in the shallows close to the shoreline.