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A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

Getting caught in a web of fear

Which should you fear most, in your tropical paradise, sharks or coconuts?

Mon, 13 Mar, 2017

Sharks are getting a bad press but injuries are few and far between

TELEVISION footage of a great white shark crashing through the bars of a cage off Mexico’s Guadalupe Island has been seen worldwide. 

Mon, 31 Oct, 2016

Shark’s travel tale stirs up frenzy

ARECENT newspaper headline announced: “As great white shark Lydia closes in on UK, Brits brace for bloody mayhem on holiday beaches.” The “man-eater” with “razor-sharp teeth” will soon arrive here, we were told. She was “on course for Ireland”.

Mon, 24 Mar, 2014

Victim of Hawaiian shark attack dies

A German woman who lost her arm in a shark attack died yesterday, a week after she was bitten while snorkelling off Maui, Hawaii.

Thu, 22 Aug, 2013

Body parts found in shark

Australian police were today trying to discover the identity of human remains found in the stomach of a large tiger shark caught off the country’s east coast.

Mon, 22 Apr, 2002