Men shouldn't go into the water! Men are 8 times more likely to be attacked by sharks

A new study has found that Sharks are nine times more likely to kill men than women.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Researchers in Australia found that in all unprovoked shark attack cases, men were targeted in 84% of the time, they also found that males make up 89% of all shark bite fatalities.

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Daryl McPhee from Bond University in Queensland said that the results were so surprising that he had to double-check them.

"Potentially men spend more time in the water, and are more risk-prone," he said.

McPhee's study, to be published in the scientific journal Coastal Management, found Australia has recorded the highest number of fatal shark bites globally over the past thirty years, and the number of unprovoked bites has increased threefold in that time.

The study found that there had been 32 fatal shark bites had been documented in Australia between 1982 and 2011, more than South Africa, where there were 28 fatalities, or the United States, which recorded 25 deaths.

The study reported that a total of 171 unprovoked bites occurred in Australia during that period, compared with 769 in the United States and 132 in South Africa.

"Of the six countries where shark bites are most prevalent, Australia actually recorded the fourth lowest percentage of bites that were fatal at 18.7 per cent, despite having the highest number of total fatalities," he said.

In Australia, surfers were bitten the most, with 63 surfers suffering shark bites, compared with 44 swimmers and 26 scuba divers, but only 15.8% of surfers suffered fatal injuries, compared with 34.6% of scuba divers and 33.3% of snorkelers.

"Scuba divers suffer a greater number of bites to the head and torso, as their whole body is submerged in the water, while surfers are more likely to receive less fatal bites to the limbs," said McPhee.

"However, overall it is important to remember that despite numbers increasing, unprovoked shark bites still remain an extremely infrequent event with, for example, 129 people drowning on Australian surf beaches between 2001 and 2005 alone," he said. "The fear of a shark bite is out of all proportion to the actual risk posed."

"Unfortunately Hollywood in particular has created an inaccurate impression that there are sinister 'rogue' sharks waiting around every corner to 'attack' an unsuspecting human."

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