Sharks attacks – especially deadly – went significantly around the world last year, a new report shows.
Last iteration International Shark attack fileThe database, managing Florida -Museum of Natural Sciences and the University of Florida, showed that shark attacks decreased significantly in 2024 and significantly below the average.
“Untested shark bites fell in 2024,” the report said in the headline, which characterized the year as “exclusively calm” for shark bites.
Out of 88, there were 71 bites confirmed by the sharks and human interactions, which, according to researchers, were investigating last year. The report segmented these incidents into unchecked and caused bites, 47 and 24 respectively. Seven attacks were fatal, including four unlawful attacks, the study said.
These figures did not take into account the cases where the sharks attacked the boat or bite the man who was already dead. Several additional incidents, when a person's injuries could not be undoubtedly linked to the shark, through another predatory maritime being attributed to the “unconfirmed” in the report.
Confirmed attacks in 2024 dwarf numbers Reported in the international shark attack file of the previous yearwhich recognized 91 global incident, including 69 unlawed bites and 22 provoked bites. Ten people were killed in sharks attacks in 2023 and six were killed in unproven attacks, researchers said at the time.
The new report notes that the number of attacks last year was “much lower” by an average of 70 unproven sharks recorded annually. It also calls four unlawed attacks a “significant decline” compared to previous years.
International shark attack file views attacks on a living person in the natural habitat that did not bother the animal before being bitten, “unlawful”. He examines the attacks that take place after a person has initiated some contact with the “triggered” shark.
Divers suffering from bite after trying to touch or otherwise pursue sharks, attacks on the projectile, bites on people who tried to feed the sharks, and bites that happen when the shark is broken or removed from the fishing net – these are some examples of the scripts that will be Meet the criteria for “provoked” attack.
Unable to bites are of particular interest to researchers studying sharks attack models.
“We are interested in the natural patterns of sharks behavior so that we can understand why people from time to time bite these animals,” said Gavin Nahar, Florida Program Director for shark study. “Any replica or attribute that changes the animal's natural behavior is what we, as scientists, want to exclude.”
Places with the most unlawful sharks attack
Most of the unverified attacks of the 2024 sharks, which arose from ancient schemes, said in the new report, the new report noted. Last year, the United States had 28 confirmed shark bites, which is 60% of the total worldwide, despite the fact that in 2023 were lower than 36 unverified incidents.
Half of us happened in Florida In 2024, which is also common for the state, often, as we know, feels the highest concentration of sharks bites anywhere in the world. Like the national total, Florida reduced unverified sharks bites, where an average of five-year-19 unlawed attacks.
Australia has overcome the total US with nine unlawed bites, a marked decline compared to the five -year average of 15 years. Egypt, Maldives, Western Sahara, Turks Islands and Kaikos, French Polynesia, Mozambique, India, Thailand and Tobago ,, Tobago, Tobago ,, Kaikos and Belize each reported one unproven shark attack.
The deadly attacks occurred in the US, Egypt, Maldives and Western Sahara, with one death confirmed in each place, the shark attack file reports. Although there were no sealed bites in Florida, the only death in the US in the attack on the shark last year occurred in Hawaii when the surge Tamayo Perry was killed From the island of OAH. The researchers said the species of sharks involved in this attack.