I’ve been up in one of the banner towing aircraft flying over Daytona, Ponce Inlet, and New Syria beaches. You wouldn’t believe but there were thousands of sharks, many swimming right among the bathers. My family doesn’t swim in the ocean anymore.
Syria = Smyna
Sharks still congregate in surf zones and they are hunting there. This is why shark attack stats are skewed toward popular bathing beaches and surfing points. But go out a little further to the fringing reefs and you’ll see very few.