09.09.2014
After calculations made by Australian specialists from Bond University, women can bathe safely, but men have reasons to worry. According to the statistics of 30 years, about 89% of shark bites are the results of attacks at men.
Besides sex differentiation, scientists published regional statistics. The most shark-dangerous region was Australia – 171 attacks, 32 of which were lethal. The second one was South Africa – 132 attacks with 28 ones lethal. In general, the USA took the first place, but there were less percentage of lethal accidents (3,6%), which is connected with the fact that just small kinds of shark inhabit costs of the US. Unfortunately, there's a return statistics which shows that for some kinds of sharks (mostly inhabiting North-West of Atlantics, where people eat shark meat) man is the only enemy. There's less than 25% of the population left in those areas.
