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Even though the popular belief is that all sharks will attack, nothing can be further from the truth. In fact, there are 360 species of sharks, however only 4 have been involved in attacking humans and these are: bull sharks, tiger, oceanic whitetip and the great white shark. The fear of sharks has a lot to do with the popularized culture and movies such as Jaws, however a great number of shark species have been filmed in the open waters, without cage and without an attack happening.
The oceanic whitetip as stated above rarely attacks, however as it lives in the open seas it is often present when great sea disasters happen and it has been involved in the aftermaths of such disasters, where the number of fatalities were much larger due to the shark attacks.
In 2006. the global number of shark attacks was 62, out of which 4 were deadly. However, when shark attacks do happen, the reasons why this particular species is called predatory become obvious. Catch real shark attacks on shark attack videos.
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