This bloodthirsty and merciless murderer is the stuff of chilling legends. In thrillers, the white shark appears to the viewer as a vengeful, intelligent creature, from which it is almost impossible to hide. And after all, in fact, who can remain indifferent to the footage, which depicts a shark attack on a person? Moreover, such stories take place in real life.
World statistics
In fact, shark attacks on humans occur regularly. This is the main factor of fear of a formidable predator. The cold-blooded killer frightens the imagination of people with its many sharp teeth, located in the mouth in several rows and tilted inward. It is this fact that most often causes deaths, since the very attack of a shark on a person does not end with the fact that the predator eats its prey. Wounded simplybleeding, slashed with monster teeth like sharp knives. World statistics report that in 2010 there were 94 attacks on people, 8 were fatal; in 2011, sharks attacked swimmers 118 times, of which 15 were fatal; in 2012, there were 96 attacks resulting in 8 deaths.
Reasons for shark attacks
The situation around this large predator is escalated by films in which a well-planned persecution is supposedly literally organized behind a person. It should be noted that the white shark is considered the largest. An attack on a person is made by this type. But calling it a killer fish is still not worth it. The white shark does not feed on people, so a shark attack on a person can rather be attributed to accidents than to ordinary phenomena. A predatory fish rushes after a victim due to a mistake, mistaking a person for a marine animal, with which it is accustomed to eat. But the fact that there is a possibility of falling prey to this predator does not make it any less frightening. Although, comparing the statistics of mortality from predatory fish and the number of drowned people, we see a ratio of 1 to 3306. Still, people are more afraid of sharks than the likelihood of drowning.
A terrible incident in Primorye in 2011
Last year shocked the whole world with a terrible event. In the Khasan region, a white shark made a double attack on people. An eleven-meter monster weighing about three tons attacked a married couple. Femalewas not injured, but her husband, Denis Udovenko, was much less fortunate. Although the shark was driven away and the man was treated, both of his arms had to be amputated up to the elbow. It happened in the south of Primorye in Telyakovsky Bay. A little later, a second terrible incident occurred. On the island of Zheltukhin, located north of Vladivostok, a shark attacked a sixteen-year-old boy who injured his leg.
Everyone should be careful
But people continue to swim in dangerous areas, not paying attention to the fact that sharks attack people there from time to time. Photos posted in the media and the Internet are frightening with their reality. From the belly of a ripped predator, fishermen extract parts of human bodies, limbs - is this not enough to become more careful? And although it has been proven that not all sharks dream of eating human flesh, there is still no sensible explanation for what reason these cases still take place in our lives.
