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Eight people lost their lives in shark attacks this year in Australia, without such casualties since 1934
Taronga Zoo in Sydney, which keeps records, announced Monday. Over the past five decades, shark attacks have taken an average of one death per year, and in fact, no one was killed by marine predator bites in Australia last year, said Phoebe Meagher, a zoo shark expert.
This year, shark attacks have claimed lives on both the east and west coasts.
However, experts say that there is no reason to scare bathers or surfers, because in terms of the number of so-called unprovoked attacks, 2020 was a completely average year, 20 such cases occurred, while in the last In the decade the number of such attacks ranged from 15 to 25 per year.
The expert said that many victims of shark attacks in previous years were simply lucky, were quickly cared for and survived the encounter with the predator. The fate of a shark attack depends on two really important factors: which part of the body is bitten and how quickly you get medical help. This year, there was simply too much misfortune on both of these factors.
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