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50 facts about sharks
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38 Statistically, what are the

most deadly places on

Earth with regard to shark attacks?

BERMUDA
Native example: Silky shark
(carcharhinus falciformis)
Total attacks: 3 EUROPE
USA Fatal attacks: 0 Native example: Basking sharks
Native example: Basking Last fatality: N/A Porbeagle (lamna nasus) are huge
shark (cetorhinus maximus) Total attacks: 36 but generally
Total attacks: 947 Fatal attacks: 17 harmless
Fatal attacks: 36 Thresher shark Last fatality: 1984
Last fatality: 2010
ASIA
Native example: Oceanic whitetip
Bull shark shark (carcharhinus longimanus)
Basking shark Total attacks: 120
Shortfi n mako Fatal attacks: 52
Last fatality: 2000
Hammerhead

Whale shark
Whale shark
Great white
Nurse shark

Tiger shark
AFRICA
HAWAII Native example: Bull
Native example: Sandbar shark (carcharhinus leucas) AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND
shark (carcharhinus plumbeus) Total attacks: 299 Native example: Scalloped Native example: Blue
Total attacks: 102 Fatal attacks: 78 hammerhead (sphyrna lewini) shark (prionace glauca)
Fatal attacks: 8 Last fatality: 2010 Total attacks: 417 Total attacks: 44
Last fatality: 2004 SOUTH AMERICA Fatal attacks: 131 Fatal attacks: 8
Native example: Bignose Last fatality: 2010 Last fatality: 1968
shark (carcharhinus altimus)
Total attacks: 101 CENTRAL AMERICA
Fatal attacks: 23 Native example: Great white
PACIFIC/OCEANIA ISLANDS Last fatality: 2006 shark (carcharodon carcharias)
Native example: Tiger shark Total attacks: 52
(galeocerdo cuvier) Fatal attacks: 26 Where
Total attacks: 121 Last fatality: 2008 42
Fatal attacks: 48 OPEN OCEAN can I fi nd
Last fatality: 2009 Native example: Dusky
shark (carcharhinus obscurus) sharks?
Total attacks: 17
Fatal attacks: 5 BASKING SHARK: temperate
Last fatality: 2006
ANTILLES/BAHAMAS waters, both coastal and offshore
Native example: Blacktip BULL SHARK: shallow tropical
shark (carcharhinus limbatus) coastal waters, estuaries and
Total attacks: 61 What’s a large rivers
Fatal attacks: 15 40
Last fatality: 1972 common shark GREAT WHITE: coastal and offshore
temperate waters worldwide
in British waters? HAMMERHEAD: temperate
Most of the small shark species seen off the British and subtropical waters on the
continental shelf
39 Are includes the spotted dogfish and the spiny dogfi sh. NURSE SHARK: shallow tropical
coast are referred to collectively as dogfi sh. This

reefs off the coast of West Africa
They can reach 1-1.5m (3.3-4.9ft) in length.
there
and Central America
sharks living 41 Is there such SHORTFIN MAKO: offshore tropical
and temperate waters worldwide
TIGER SHARK: tropical and
a thing as a
in every ocean freshwater shark? subtropical deep water around reefs
THRESHER SHARK: tropical and
on the planet? No shark species spends all its time in fresh water, temperate waters on the continental
shelf of North America and Asia
but both the river shark and bull shark have WHALE SHARK: offshore tropical
Yes. Sharks can cope with a wide range of ocean adapted kidneys that allow them to cope with and subtropical water, especially the
temperatures, even within the same species. Some fresh water for extended periods. They can swim west coast of Australia © NASA
sharks migrate thousands of miles each year. hundreds of miles up large rivers in search of prey.

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