Shark Week

Shark Week is back and begins this week on the Discovery Channel. It demonstrates that sharks do attack in as little as 3 feet of water and the depths of the ocean.

The first installment on Sunday , ‘Blood in the Water’ talks about the first recorded series of attacks in the United States off the Jersey shore during a blistering summer heat wave in 1916.

The majority of shark attacks occur upon wind-surfers and surfers making up about 57% of all attacks.

Nonetheless, most sharks do not eat people and the chance of encountering one while sunbathing is unlikely.

But there are those sharks that kill up and down the coast for a season in the same general area. This is similar to what happens in ‘ Blood in the Water’, where five people were attacked in twelve days. Four died for their gruesome injuries.