• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
    142·
    30 days 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·
        30 days 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·
    1 month 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·
        1 month 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.