• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
    152·
    3 months ago

    Sharks do not eat people. Sharks do not attack people unless by mistake. You are safe from sharks.

    Sharks result in at most 8 human fatalities per year. Humans kill 100,000,000+ Sharks per year.

      • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
        101·
        3 months ago

        According to the scientific journal Marine Policy Volume 40 the number could be closer to 273 Million per year or possibly lower than that estimate, but it’s definitely a lot of fucking sharks.

        To put things into perspective, they’re the Apex Predators of the Oceans which are about 70% of the earth’s surface, so it makes sense if there are a lot of sharks.

        EDIT: Link Fixed sorry

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
    124·
    3 months ago

    Obviously this is unrealistic and intended to be unrealistic, but it reinforces the negative and false idea that sharks like to eat humans

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
        81·
        3 months ago

        No, they like actually don’t.

        The shark attacks on record have happened because for some reason or other the animal mistook the human for a prey species, or was provoked in some way. And even then, statistically speaking, shark-on-human attacks basically don’t happen.

        In actuality, sharks will generally just ignore human swimmers and divers. Most of the time we neither look nor smell like food to them.