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Here is a map of shark attacks on the Red Sea. Blue is non fatal, red is fatal. Not so fun fact, the 2023 fatal attack was all caught on film. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (13 children)

This indicates that, statistically speaking, sharks aren't dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sharks have caused 7 deaths in some 50 years.

Cows have killed about 13 people in the Netherlands in a decade.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

And 90% of statistics are made up on the spot.

Here’s what wikipedia says:

According to the International Shark Attack File(ISAF), between 1958 and 2016 there were 2,785 confirmed unprovoked shark attacks around the world, of which 439 were fatal.[16] Between 2001 and 2010, an average of 4.3 people per year died from shark attacks.[3]

Still very low, but nearly 100 times higher than your number.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Well yeah, my source was "count the red squares in the image"

The world is somewhat larger than the red sea area.

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