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This man was killed while swimming roughly 300 yards from shore in Pinellas County, Florida. [56] Joseph Troy, Jr., 16: July 25, 1936: Great white shark: Attacked while swimming at Hollywoods Beach, Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. Troy, a summer visitor from Dorchester, was grabbed and bitten by a 6-foot shark and dragged underwater less than 50 ...
There is no official tally of shark attacks for 2024 yet, but one shark tracking website has a shark attack map for 2024 claiming that there have been 39 attacks (both provoked and unprovoked) as ...
Volusia County had the most shark bites, and the others were reported in Brevard, St. Lucie, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Escambia and Pinellas counties. There were no fatalities reported last year in ...
Shark attacks are rare, according to experts. There were 69 unprovoked bites last year worldwide, and 10 of those were fatal, according to the University of Florida’s International Shark Attack ...
Lists of fatal shark attacks include: List of fatal shark attacks in Australia; List of fatal shark attacks in Réunion; List of fatal shark attacks in South African territorial waters; List of fatal shark attacks in the United States
In 2021, The Island Packet reported shark attacks off the island on two separate occasions. In May 2021, a 26-year-old man was swimming at Burkes beach on Hilton Head when he suddenly felt ...
Despite the high number of incidents, shark attacks are still an exceedingly rare occurrence. Dozens of beachgoers at Panama City Beach form a human chain to rescue nine stranded swimmers in ...
New Smyrna Beach is in Volusia County, which had the most shark bites in Florida with eight, representing 50 per cent of the state’s total, making it 2023’s shark attack capital of the world ...