Shark attacks — and fatalities — dropped in 2024. Here’s where most unprovoked bites occurred.
A new report shows that shark attacks, especially deadly, have dropped sharply worldwide last year.
Latest iteration International Shark Attack ArchivesThis is a database run by the Florida Museum of Natural History and the University of Florida, showing that shark attacks fell sharply in 2024, well below the annual average.
The report reads on the title: “Unprovoked shark bites plummeted in 2024.”
The researchers said that among 88 so-called shark-human interactions, they surveyed last year and confirmed 71 bites. The report subdivides these incidents into unprovoked and provocative bites, with 47 and 24 respectively. The study said seven of the attacks were deadly, including four unprovoked attacks.
These figures do not indicate that sharks attack dead ships or humans. In the report, several other incidents in which the shark could not be attributed to the shark were classified as “unproven”.
Confirmed attacks in 2024 dwarf numbers Reported in the last year’s International Shark Attack Documentwhich acknowledged 91 global incidents, including 69 unprovoked bites and 22 provocative bites. Researchers said at the time that 10 people died in the 2023 shark attack, and six of them died in the unprovoked attack.
The number of attacks last year was “well below” the 10-year average, with about 70 unactivated shark bites recorded each year, the new report noted. It also called the four unprovoked attacks a “significant decrease” compared to previous years.
The International Shark Attack Archive considers the attack on a living person in the shark’s natural habitat where they did not disturb the animal before being bitten, “for no reason.” It considers attacks that occur after humans “provoked” to start some kind of contact with sharks.
Divers suffer from suffering in attempts to touch or otherwise harass sharks, attacks on spear fish, bites of people who bite people trying to feed sharks and bites that occur when sharks are untied or removed from fishing nets. “The standard of attack.
Researchers studying shark attack patterns are particularly interested.
“We are interested in the natural patterns of shark behavior so that we can understand why people are occasionally bitten by these animals,” Gavin Naylor, director of the Florida Shark Research Program. “Any The prompts or attributes that change the natural behavior of animals are things that we, as scientists, want to exclude.”
The most unreasonable place for shark attacks
The new report points out that most of the unprovoked shark attacks in 2024 occurred in the United States, following a long-term pattern. Last year, there were 28 confirmed shark bites in U.S. waters, accounting for 60% of the global total, although lower than the 36 unprovoked incidents confirmed in 2023.
Half of our attacks happened Florida This is also common in 2024, as the state often experiences the highest concentration of shark bites anywhere in the world. Like the national total, unprovoked shark bites have also dropped in Florida, with an average of 19 unprovoked attacks over the past five years.
Australia trails the United States with 9 unprovoked bites, compared with the country’s five-year average of 15 years, Egypt, Maldives, Western Sahara, Turks and Caicos, French Polynesia, Mozambique, India, Thailand, Thailand, Triland, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize each reported an unprovoked shark attack.
According to the shark attack archive, the deadly attack occurred in the United States, Egypt, the Maldives and Western Sahara, killing everywhere. Despite the large bites in Florida, the only U.S. death occurred in shark attacks in Hawaii last year Tamayo Perry was killed On Oahu Island. The shark species involved in the attack are unknown, the researchers said.
