It was briefly mentioned that sharks are, realistically, a very statistically low danger to people. But that undersells it. Let’s put some numbers to it, shall we?
The Florida Museum collaborates with institutions all over the world to maintain what’s called the International Shark Attack Files (ISAF). Really, really cool program that tracks human-shark interactions. (that link is also my source for all this)
In the entirety of 2019, they identified 140 interactions, which they classify in one of 8 categories. Unprovoked, provoked, boat attacks, scavenge, public aquaria, no assignment could be made, could not be verified, and doubtful.
“Unprovoked attacks” are defined as incidents where an attack on a live human occurs in the shark’s natural habitat with no human provocation of the shark.
“Provoked attacks” occur when a human initiates interaction with a shark in some way. These include instances when divers are bitten after harassing or trying to touch sharks, attacks on spearfishers, attacks on people attempting to feed sharks, bites occurring while unhooking or removing a shark from a fishing net, and so forth.”
So only Unprovoked Attacks speak to @miasmicsiren‘s “unnecessary danger to swimmers“ point.
In 2019, ISAF identified 64 unprovoked attacks globally. (Admittedly, 2019 was a low year, with the average being 82). Of those 64, only 2 were fatal. (only 3 of the provoked attacks were fatal, so, like, even when we go fucking with them, they really have no interest in killing people.) The average is around 4, but 2 is relatively statistically in line with the overall lower number of shark interactions.
Y’all really are gonna keep painting sharks as vicious man-eaters?Bull(shark)shit.
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