When a surfer is bitten by a shark, especially in surfing hotspots in the U.S. and Australia, the story often goes viral.

Great white shark attacks remain - thankfully - extraordinarily rare. Like most shark species, great whites generally avoid humans as they have enough intelligence to differentiate them from prey and ...

A surfer was injured in Fuerteventura, while Australia and the USA were the countries where most bites were documented, according to the annual report from the Florida Museum of Natural History ...

An avid fisherman has survived a great white shark attack in South Australia. On Wednesday, March 25, 69-year-old Luke Kuhn and his diving partner Daniel Field were diving for lobster at Cape Jaffa on ...

A surfer says he had to swim for his life after a 15-foot great white shark took a bite out of his surf board at a popular beach near Watsonville, California. Beau Browning was surfing about 50 yards ...

Great white sharks may be breeding once more in the Mediterranean, according to scientists, in news that could unsettle British vacationers who visit the region each summer. The discovery follows the ...

Jack Frost, 24, was sitting on his board in the swell at Boat Ramp, a popular Margaret River break in WA’s South West, on the ...

Just hours before the young man vanished from the notorious surf break, a local fisherman was warning others to keep a look ...

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