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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] The area encompasses the beaches of the heavily populated San Francisco Bay Area, and many people enjoy surfing, windsurfing, swimming and diving in these waters. [3]
[129] [131] On October 25, 2010, the Santa Barbara County coroner confirmed the species as great white after conferring with shark experts from the Los Angeles-based Shark Research Committee. The shark that attacked Ransom is believed to have been 17–18 feet (5.2–5.5 m) long, weighing approximately 4,000 pounds (1,814 kg).
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Swimmers and surfers today are about 90 percent less likely to be attacked by sharks off California's coast than they were in the 1950s, even though there are hundreds of ...
A 46-year-old man “sustained multiple bites” in an apparent shark attack in Del Mar, California Sunday morning, Jon Edelbrock, community services director and chief lifeguard for the city ...
Unprovoked shark attacks are rare: There were just 36 attacks in the U.S. last year, including two in California, one of them fatal, the Florida Museum of Natural History’s International Shark ...
A swimmer in California was attacked by a shark Wednesday and suffered what police described as significant injuries. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
The attack happened about 100 yards from Del Mar's relatively new lifeguard headquarters on 17th Street, the city said. Lifeguards on duty closed a stretch of Del Mar beach to swimmers and surfers ...
The University of Florida’s International Shark Attack File finds that there were a total of 57 shark bites in 2022, marking a 10-year low Mapped: World’s shark attack hotspots revealed Skip ...