Photos from open Sources Over the past decade, the number of shark attacks on residents and guests of the American state of Hawaii increased by more than three times. Moreover, over the past five years, about sixty percent of attacks of underwater predators was recorded offshore Maui Local experts analyzed the situation and found out why people increasingly get it from sharks.
Zoologists from the University of Hawaii have been monitoring for two years life of tiger sharks found near tropical islands. According to scientists, the predators themselves, contrary to widespread fear, did not become fiercer and bloodthirsty. But the tourism industry in the sunny state has undergone significant changes. From year to year more and more people come here because of ignorance or recklessness is increasingly swimming in the waters where sharks are found. From here according to American researchers, and steadily increasing number of attacks. Predators continue to behave the same as earlier. “Well, the sharks are not to blame for the fact that more and more prey is voluntary ends up on their territory, “says Karl Meyer, one of authors of the study.
By the way, in Hawaii, featuring a very diverse marine fauna, danger to people is not only sharks. At the beginning this month, local fisherman Randy Lanes died fighting a major swordfish. A man shot an animal with a harpoon gun and a fish, realizing that she could not sail away, she rushed onto the boat and pierced offender’s chest. The fisherman died on the spot.
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