THE TRUTH ABOUT DIVING WITH SHARKS
THE TRUTH ABOUT DIVING WITH SHARKS A man was fishing from a kayak off a Hawaiian island, unfortunately, he died after being bitten by a shark. The incident was the latest in an alarming spate of shark attacks in the state this year. There have also been reported incidents in Western Australia and South Africa in 2013. There is no doubt that sharks are potentially dangerous, wild animals that remain very difficult to tame. However did you know that; Wasps kill more people than sharks causing 100 deaths a year and also Toasters, chairs and domestic dogs all kill many more people each year than sharks do! Toasters and chairs each kill around 600-700 people a year. Dogs kill approx. 50 people a year in the US alone. So a chair or a toaster is more likely to kill you than swimming in the sea where sharks are present. In fact, on average there are only around 10 deaths caused by sharks each year around the world. The majority of these are surfers or swimmers caused by mistaken identity....