With all the recent shark activity, should you stay out of the water?

Shark activity has been putting swimmers on alert, but is this year that much different than any other?

"Usually around July 4th, the media will take off on sharks," said Greg Skomal, a fisheries biologist at the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries.

Skomal is the author of"Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark." He says the shark activity documented so far this year, while scary for those involved, is pretty on par with what scientists would expect. In 2022, the ISAF investigated 108 alleged shark-human interactions worldwide. Of those, 57 were confirmed to be"unprovoked," with five fatalities. That's lower than the 70-per-year average for the five years prior.

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