Florida’s sharks are smaller and less fierce than California’s Great Whites, usually satisfying themselves with a tentative bite and a quick release. In younger days, I knew fellow surfers who had been shark bit. I even saw one teen out surfing again the same week before the stitches on his leg were removed.
“Smaller” sharks in FL (and all along the Gulf coast) yes; “less fierce” no.
As I’ve said elsewhere on the forum, you are FAR more likely to be severely wounded, permanently damaged and/or killed by the teeth of a Bull or Tiger Shark than you are by a Great White attack.
(Fyi, Bull Sharks KILL more people Worldwide than ALL of the other sorts of sharks combined, each year. - My guess is that, especially in “developing nations”, that do not report to the international data gathers, that there are a large number of severe or fatal shark attacks that are never known outside the local area where the attack occurred.)
Yours, TMN78247
“Smaller” sharks in FL (and all along the Gulf coast) yes; “less fierce” no.
As I’ve said elsewhere on the forum, you are FAR more likely to be severely wounded, permanently damaged and/or killed by the teeth of a Bull or Tiger Shark than you are by a Great White attack.
(Fyi, Bull Sharks KILL more people Worldwide than ALL of the other sorts of sharks combined, each year. - My guess is that, especially in “developing nations”, that do not report to the international data gathers, that there are a large number of severe or fatal shark attacks that are never known outside the local area where the attack occurred.)
Yours, TMN78247