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This is a list of fatal shark attacks in Australia. The Australian Shark-Incident Database has recorded that between 1791 and April 2018 there were 237 fatal shark attacks in Australia. [ 1 ] In the two years of 2020 and 2021 there were 11 fatal shark attacks in Australia.
Great white shark. Between 1791 and April 2018 it was reported that there have been 1068 shark attacks in Australia with 237 of them being fatal.. Four species of sharks account for the vast majority of fatal attacks on humans: the bull shark, tiger shark, oceanic whitetip shark and the great white shark.
Lists of fatal shark attacks include: List of fatal shark attacks in Australia; List of fatal shark attacks in Réunion; List of fatal shark attacks in South African territorial waters; List of fatal shark attacks in the United States
There have been eight deaths linked to shark attacks in the country this year, which is the most in nearly a century. Scientists believe that climate change might be contributing to the spike ...
The Australian Shark Attack File [126] has recorded that since 1791 there have been 639 shark attacks in Australia with 190 of them being fatal. [127] Since shark netting began in 1937, the number of deaths from sharks on beaches has been reduced in New South Wales, with only one fatal attack on a netted beach during that time.
A Great White Shark swimming here, was spotted in waters where a shark is suspected of attacking a surfer on Granites Beach in South Australia on Jan. 2, 2025, police said.
Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916; List of fatal shark-incidents in Australia (Australia has the second largest number of reported shark attacks [164]) List of fatal shark attacks in California; List of fatal shark attacks in South African territorial waters; Species. Animal attacks; List of fatal bear attacks in North America
A shark fatally attacked a swimmer just outside Sydney on Wednesday in the first such deadly encounter near Australia's cultural hub in nearly 60 years,