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Shark Attack File

We are working on the site and File at this time!

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Welcome to the Peoples Worldwide Shark Attack File at SharkAttackFile.info sponsored by SharkAttackSurvivors.com. We call our file the Peoples Shark Attack File, because it designed to be used by people who use the water and / or are interested in shark attacks. You don’t have to be a shark scientist!

We’re sure you will see differences in our shark attack file results than you do on other shark attack sites, government figures, and in the papers. The main reason is other shark attack information sources mainly study sharks and use certain criteria which decide if each shark attack incident meets their organization criteria, is the incident worth investigating, studying, recording, counting and / or decide if the incident was a shark attack, shark attack fatality, or just doesn’t matter to their organization purpose.

For example: One shark attack file doesn’t want to study, have any interest in, and/or do not count, and / or report on shark attack incidents:

• If a boat capsizes and the occupants are attacked or eaten by sharks.
• If there was a Sea Disaster and many people were killed or eaten on by sharks (USS Indianapolis).
• If the person was spear fishing, or harvesting other certain marine life.
• If the person was on a shark eco tourism adventure.
• If the person was in small boat, kayak, raft, jet ski.
• If a refugee is beaten and thrown overboard by smugglers then eaten by sharks.
• If the incident wasn’t witnessed by enough people.
• If shark scavenged bodies are found in the water or washed up on the beach.
• If a body isn’t recovered.
• If enough of the victim’s body wasn’t recovered to perform an autopsy and clearly determine the cause of death was the result of a shark attack.
• If the shark attack researcher doesn’t agree with the medical examiner.
• If human remains are found inside a sharks stomach.
• If the person was in an aquarium diving with sharks.
• If the person was participating in shark research.
• If the person was fishing.
• If a shark misses the person (No bite mark injury) but bites surfboard, boat, raft.
• If a shark knocks the person off their surfboard or out of their kayak.
• The list goes on and on, and changes all the time.
• The newest criteria (2008) If the people involved in a incident cannot prove they didn’t “provoke” the shark, or there is not enough information available to determine if the incident meets any of their other criteria it is not counted.

They have made it so complicated that the shark attack researchers themselves have a hard time deciding if a person bitten by a shark meets all their criteria and can be considered a “shark attack”.

We on the other hand know people visiting the oceans are not shark scientists, most are not interested in all these complicated criteria the scientists themselves don’t understand or agree on. They just want to visit the beach and don’t want to be injured, harassed, or killed by sharks.

So we list all information available and let you decide what information is important to you.

If you Kayak and are interested in learning about the incidents where people have been attacked, killed, harassed while Kayaking you can learn about each incident here. We don’t dictate what’s important, we allow you the people to decide at the Peoples Shark Attack File.

NOTE: After creating a few query pages for the USA we could see it was going to be hard creating a good way to navigate through all the different query pages. Until we create a proper way to navigate the site Please use the Find your way back to the main Query Page here... on the top of each page.