In recent years, there’s been an average of 70 unprovoked shark attacks annually, leading to between five and six deaths per year. In 2022, there were 57 such attacks—a 10-year low.

Grave fears are held for a surfer attacked by a large shark in chest-deep water off a WA beach as the community is left ...

including one fatal attack by an unknown shark species off the northwest coast of Oahu, Hawaii, according to the latest figures. That U.S. total, however, was almost a third lower than in 2023.

The family of a surfer who went missing in a shark attack off Western Australia’s south coast have revealed he was on a ...