Is Australia really seeing more shark attacks?

[Gerald]

There have been seven fatal shark attacks in Australia this year.

The alert about the latest shark attack came last Friday: a surfer was missing; his board dragged from the waves bearing bite marks.

Western Australian authorities have since called off the search for Andrew Sharpe, 52, confirming he was mauled by a shark.

Friends who witnessed the attack said he had been knocked off his board and pulled underwater. Police divers later found scraps of his wetsuit.

His death in Wylie Bay, a popular surf spot, marks the seventh fatal shark attack in Australian waters this year, causing alarm among beach-going communities.

Not since 1929 - when there were nine fatalities - have there been so many.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54112992


If it is a matter of the shark protecting its territory and it then happens to a person who is "accidentally" there, then there can certainly be consequences ....