After multiple shark attacks in the past few months, a shark expert shares with TIME what to do in the event you spot a shark in the water.
A group of divers swim with a sandbar shark off Jupiter, Florida on February 24, 2024. Florida is the place in the world with the most shark attacks in 2023.n the past two months, multiple people have been attacked by sharks in Florida, Hawaii and Texas. And while some of these occurrences may not be out of the ordinary, they still create an element of fear for those wanting to take to the beach during the hotter months of the year.
According to Gavin Naylor, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research and of ISAF, people can very often be in close proximity to sharks, though swimmers are often unaware since sharks are swimming roughly 100 yards to 200 yards offshore. Sharks do typically try to avoid people and keep to themselves, according to Naylor.
“If water is very murky, and fishing, and they're, looking for bait fish, and they're going through a morass of people, then obviously more likely to make a mistake,” Naylor tells TIME.It’s important to pay attention to the shark’s behavior, and see if its movements are erratic, if it’s moving backwards and forwards, circling, or just has a swimmer at the center of its attention.
“They have a lot of receptors on the snout, so if they’re really quite alarmed, it'll turn and it'll go away,” Naylor continues. “That happens nine times out of 10.”
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