Your Chances of Getting Attacked By a Shark Are…

Tuesday, 30 July 2013 | by Pat's Picks

We’re right in the middle of summer swimming season, which prompts the Washington Post to ask a question that’s on many a beachgoers mind: what are your chances of getting attacked by a shark? The answer, not totally comforting: they are “extraordinarily low — though not nonexistent.” Last year, for example, there were 80 unprovoked shark attacks around the world, 7 of which led to death. Fifty-three of them took place in US waters and nearly half of them took place off the coast of Florida.

SOURCE: Washington Post