Beaches With Most Shark Attacks As Americans Pay Tribute To 'jaws' And Activist Weighs In

With Friday marking nan 50th day of nan iconic movie "Jaws," galore Americans are paying tribute to sharks moreover arsenic reports of caller attacks drawback headlines.

On Tuesday, a swimmer was bitten connected nan limb while successful South Carolina, according to Hilton Head Fire and Rescue. 

A nine-year-old woman was besides precocious bitten while snorkeling disconnected Boca Grande, Florida. 

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There person been 47 unprovoked shark bites globally successful 2024, pinch 28 taking spot successful nan U.S., according to nan Florida Museum of Natural History’s International Shark Attack File (ISAF).

Florida beaches person logged nan highest number of shark attacks, pinch 942 unprovoked bites since 1837.

Of each coastal states, Florida leads pinch nan astir unprovoked shark bites since 1837, arsenic experts statement changing shark behaviour from seashore to coast. (iStock)

Hawaii has 199, while California has 141, ISAF has noted.

Activist Julie Andersen, laminitis of nan New York-based Shark Angels, told Fox News Digital that caller attacks do not bespeak an summation successful sharks successful nan oceans. 

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"The emergence successful sightings is owed to a operation of factors: much group successful nan water, amended technology, shifting water conditions, and successful immoderate cases, successful conservation," she said. 

"Today, much swimmers, surfers and beachgoers are capturing and sharing their experiences."

There person been 47 unprovoked shark bites globally successful 2024, pinch 28 taking spot successful nan U.S. (iStock)

She added, "With drones, GoPros and societal media, encounters that erstwhile went unnoticed are now wide shared. Sharks person ever been there. We’re conscionable seeing them much often."

Shark Angels is dedicated to shark conservation by transforming fearfulness into fascination and promoting acquisition to dispel myths astir sharks, nan group notes.

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Andersen said that successful places for illustration California aliases Cape Cod, Massachusetts, achromatic shark populations are rebounding "thanks to decades of protection." She said their return is simply a motion of healthier oceans.

The American Association for nan Advancement of Science estimates astir 274,000 sharks are killed globally each day.

About 274,000 sharks are killed globally each day. (iStock)

Andersen said respective beach communities are seeing higher numbers of sharks this summer. 

"Based connected trends complete nan past fewer years, shark behaviour is intelligibly shifting," she said. 

"From nan West Coast to nan East Coast and moreover parts of Mexico, sightings are expanding successful places for illustration California, Cape Cod, nan Carolinas, Florida, and Baja."

Andersen said, "New Smyrna Beach successful Florida holds nan title of ‘shark wound superior of nan world.' Located successful Volusia County, it consistently tops world charts for shark encounters."

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She besides said that "most of these bites are minor, often from migrating mini blacktip sharks mistaking toes and fingers for mini bait fish. Many don’t moreover require stitches."

One daring endurance jock is paying a typical tribute to "Jaws" by swimming 62 miles around nan land of Martha’s Vineyard successful Massachusetts — wherever nan movie was set.

A shopper walks past items featuring nan "Jaws" movie astatine Neptune's Sea Chest gift shop connected May 12, 2025, successful Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, connected Martha's Vineyard Island.  (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Lewis Pugh said his extremity is to raise consciousness of nan request to protect sharks and to alteration nationalist cognition of nan mighty fish.

Pugh said nan celebrated 1975 movie showcased sharks arsenic "villains, arsenic cold-blooded killers," he told The Associated Press (AP). 

"It was a movie astir sharks attacking humans and for 50 years, we person been attacking sharks … It’s wholly unsustainable. It’s madness. We request to respect them," Pugh told AP.

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Not judge what to do if you brushwood a shark successful nan water?

The folks astatine Shark Angels shared immoderate insights to consider.

6 shark tips you must cognize this summer

1. "If a shark comes adjacent you successful nan water, enactment calm. Do not panic."

2. "Make and support oculus contact. Sharks are opportunistic predators and for illustration an easy target. When they cognize you spot them, they are overmuch little apt to approach."

3. "Avoid flailing, yelling aliases trying to deed nan shark. Quick, erratic movements tin trigger a response."

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4. "Instead, move slow and steadily. Keep your eyes connected nan shark and calmly caput toward statement aliases safety."

5. "Do not enactment for illustration prey. Just arsenic you would not tally from a lion aliases a bear, do not fly from a shark."

6. "If you travel crossed 1 successful nan wild, springiness it abstraction and enactment composed. Sharks are not looking for a human meal."