Welcome to Shark Attack Survivors
Shark Attack File
Information
contained on Shark Attack Survivors sites will
differ from the information found on other Shark
Attack Related sites.
The main reason
for this is we are actual Shark Attack Survivors
trying to help provide Recourses, Information,
Assistance for Past, Present, and Future Shark
Attack Survivors, their family members and the
families of those bite victims that didn’t
survive the incident.
We use the
information we collect to contact other shark
attack survivors, monitor trends to see how we
can better our services for victims and their
families.
We hope by
sharing the database information and survivors
information with you it will help you better
understand the species of shark, locations of
shark incidents, the severity, the activity or
your particular area of interest.
These Data Access pages allow you to
view our Online Reported Shark Attack Related
Incident File and Database!
Each Page is setup to display
different results, or is interactive allowing
you to run queries on the database, and some
pages have links to our "News Archive", and so
on.
The results you see on these
pages are queried from our online database of
Reported Shark Attack Related Incidents and are
not to be confused with the “Confirmed”, ”Un-Provoked”
Shark Attacks you maybe use to hearing or
reading about
Reported Shark Attack Related
Incidents include “Confirmed”, ”Un-Provoked”
Shark Attacks but also include incidents where
spear fisherman may have been bitten, divers
were on
shark eco tourism dives, cases total consumption,
cases were there
was no injury, bites to boats, boats capsizing,
sea disasters, murder, drowned and scavenged,
etc.
The word “Fatal” in the
results does not mean shark caused the fatality,
it only means there was a fatality and shark was
highly suspected, or confirmed to have eaten
human flesh.
The word "Attack" is a general
term most often used with a shark related
incident. It would be impossible to separate
each incident to decide if it was a accident,
attack, encounter, incident, bump, non-attack,
provoked, and so on. If you want to research
that type of info you can decide what is what
for each incident yourself.
Search Pages
- When you are at a search
page if you look below you will see “search
forms” for the date field and so on. You
should also see some results already pulled
from the data base.
- The search fields are
very easy to use they are setup to use the
“contain” command which allows you to search
a particular phrase or part of a search
phrase. Search terms you enter are “not”
case sensitive.
Some examples:
- Date format is laid out
“day-month-year” or”11-jun-2007” (the month
is 3 characters only).
- (Put “Jun” in date search
form) >Submit Query – you will get the June
results.
- (Put “JUN-2007”) and
you’ll get the June, 2007 results.
- (Put “199” in the date
field) and you’ll get the results for the
years 1990 to 1999.
- You can use as many of
the search forms as you want, to change a
search term “highlight it or click in form
and change or delete that term.
- If you get a response “No
Records were returned” you most likely
entered something in wrong.
Common mistakes –
- July in date field - ONLY
THREE CHARACTERS
You misspelled something use partial terms –
(You misspell “Austrialia”) Use “Aus”
instead.
- You entered the term in
the wrong field (You put “Florida” in the
Country form.
- GET CONFUSED DELETE
EVERYTHING AND START OVER!
- There are database
limitations and anomalies you should know
about these are just a few:
- In tech terms “Null items
are ignored” What that means is in this page
we have a search form for “Sex”, any
incident where the sex is not known will not
show up in the results. The page will only
recognize incidents in the database where
the Sex is known.
- Other pages (in the
works) will display different info and allow
you to query different fields.
- A few small anomalies we
are working on correcting – (Put “surfing”
in the Activity form) your results will
contain “surfing” and “Body surfing”.
- There are other little
anomalies you may notice we are working on
correcting these with each database update.
- Update - We adjusted the
species field. Many species have the same
scientific name, but depending on your
location the common names may differ ie.
(Bull, Zambezi, Amazon, Nicaragua) all the
same shark. The most common name used is
(Bull). Pages with species information
displayed you will see the how the different
species are entered.
Enjoy!!!!
Shark Attack Survivors
The Stats and Incidents listed
here are pulled from our online database in real
time!!!
Each time an incident is added
to the database these Stats and Incidents will
be automatically updated.
If you are a returning
visitor you should refresh your browser to
ensure you are getting the most current
information.
