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Shark Attacks and Related Incidents File

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1. How do I know if a shark attack was provoked or un-provoked?
2. What does the listing "Group Fatal" and "Group Incidents" mean?
3. What is a Shark Attack?
4. Why are scavenged bodies listed as Fatal?
5. What does "Harassed" mean?
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How do I know if a shark attack was provoked or un-provoked?

1. We don't use these terms of provoked or un-provoked the physical and mental injury is more important to to our cause.
2. No one wants a shark to bite them and cause a serious injury, but at times people do make mistakes and underestimate the power, quickness, or do not respect a shark. We feel if people do make a mistake and cause themselves serious injury (Please let us learn from your experience) Please share.
3. Each shark researcher uses different criteria to help determine if a attack was provoked or un-provoked. Some have a long list of criteria, while others say the person must draw first blood against the shark, while others say any physical contact between a shark and a human, or piece of equipment being utilized by the human, constitutes an unprovoked shark attack. While others say all attacks are provoked whether the person knew they were provoking a shark or not.
4. YOU CAN DECIDE IF A ATTACK WAS PROVOKED OR UN PROVOKED IF THAT'S IMPORTANT TO YOU!

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What does the listing "Group Fatal" and "Group Incidents" mean?

1. Group Fatal is usually associated with boating accidents incidents. When a boat sinks or several people were involved in a Fatal incident at the same time we count the total number of people involved and not list each person as a Fatal incident.
2. Group Incidents is the number of separate incidents listed in the database to get the Group Fatal numbers.
3. If you see group fatal of 10 and group incidents of 1 - This would mean there were 10 people involved in a Fatal incident at the same time and the database will only show this as a single incident.
4. NOTE: You may also see Group Murder and Murder Incidents - These are incidents usually involving smuggling (Smugglers beat and throw refugees overboard to waiting sharks) this keeps the other refugees in line.
5. We have also added "Group Injured" This is where several unknown people were injured over a period of time. As more reports of incidents in third world countries becomes available they often include reference to other previously un-reported incidents.

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What is a Shark Attack?

1. YOU HAVE TO DECIDE THIS FOR YOURSELF!
2. We list all Reported Shark Attack Related Incidents we can find reference to and let you decide what's of interest to you.
3. Myself being involved in a severe shark attack which caused the loss of a arm and a near death experience are probably more critical than most on what a shark attack is when compared to my experience. We use the words "shark attack" even when not every incident listed here is a "shark attack" according to my criteria, nor will some incidents be a "shark attack" according to your criteria.
4. The words "shark attack" are short understandable words most often used when referring to what we consider a SHARK ATTACK RELATED INCIDENT!

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Why are scavenged bodies listed as Fatal?

1. In most scavenged bodies incidents there is no way to prove if the person was or wasn't alive at the time.
2. There was a fatality and someone died.
3. This is 100 percent scientific proof of sharks eating human flesh.
4. Some scavenged body cases are very controversial, some times the difference between a scavenged body and a Fatal Shark Attack can be a small as a minute one way or another, not enough people witnessed the incident, and many other factors.
5. I arrived at the hospital DOA, my attack could have been ruled several ways if I hadn't survived the attack so this topic is of special interest to me.
   
   I was ripped off my surfboard taken underwater by the shark, fought with the shark in turmoil of water at the surface these things caused my lungs to have enough water in them for me to have been considered drowned. I had two tubes inserted into my lungs and had several weeks of treatment to remove all the water from my lungs.
   
   If a shark attack caused my lungs to have water in them and I had a surfboard for flotation. It is very possible for sharks to have the ability to drown people in other incidents before death or cause a drowning death.
   
   Another thing about my attack is if I wasn’t able to get the shark to let go and died as the shark was removing flesh from my arm. The tissue proving I was alive at the time of the attack would have been removed, leaving tissue that would have proved I would have been scavenged by a shark.
   
   The difference between a shark attack fatality and a drowning can be a few seconds. The difference between a shark attack fatality and scavenged body can be one bite away.
   
   Al Brenneka
   1976 Lemon Shark Attack Survivor - Amputee

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What does "Harassed" mean?

1. These are incidents where there was No Injury. Everything from bites to boats, surfers getting knocked of their boards, people took actions and luckily escaped with No Injury.
2. To display these in the injury field type "No Injury" in the search field.
3. Some sources do not have any interest in these type incidents we feel it is very important to learn how these people avoided being bitten. 

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