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After a video of a shark attack in Egypt went viral ... for unprovoked attacks on humans. But shark attacks are generally rare overall, with confirmed unprovoked cases totalling 57 worldwide in ...
The last attack was in June 2023 when a tiger shark killed a Russian national in Hurghada, another coastal resort north of Marsa Alam. Vladimir Popov, 23, was eaten alive by a shark off a beach at ...
A 61-year-old man in Hawaii is recovering after he was bitten by a shark while surfing. On Friday, Nov. 1, Maui police and fire officials announced in a press release that a man was bitten on the ...
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.
Sand sharks are not known to attack humans. If a person were to provoke a sand shark, it may retaliate defensively. Sand sharks are generally not aggressive, but harass divers who are spearfishing. In North America, wreck divers regularly visit the World War II shipwrecks to dive with the sharks that make the wrecks their home. [8]
The sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus), grey/gray nurse shark, spotted ragged-tooth shark, or blue-nurse sand tiger, is a species of shark that inhabits subtropical and temperate waters worldwide. It inhabits the continental shelf, from sandy shorelines (hence the name sand tiger shark) and submerged reefs to a depth of around 191 m (627 ft). [2]
A Russian man died after being mauled by a shark on Thursday off one of Egypt's Red Sea resorts, Egyptian and Russian authorities said. Egypt's Environment Ministry said the man was killed after ...
On 8 June 2023, a tiger shark attacked and killed a 23-year-old Russian man in the Red Sea off the coast of the Egyptian city of Hurghada. The attack was filmed by onlookers and the recording went viral. The shark was later captured by fishermen and killed. This was the third fatal tiger shark attack in the area since 2022. [65]