Volusia County has been unofficially dubbed the “shark bite capital of the world,” according to The Daytona Beach News-Journal, and data suggests that name may have some merit. The International Shark Attack File has recorded 351 unprovokedattacks in Volusia County, far more than any ot...
- A teenage girl was airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries Thursday after she was attacked by a shark while scalloping with her family in Florida, authorities said. According to the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded Thursday afternoon to Keaton Beach in the Big Bend...
Of Florida’s 28 unprovoked bites, 17 were in Volusia County, which includes Daytona Beach.Unprovoked attacks occur when there is no human provocation. Provoked attacks are defined as when humans initiate contact, such as divers trying to touch a shark or fishermen removing a shark from a ...
A shark attack off Florida's east coast left a man with a "severe bite to his right arm" on Friday, authorities said. The Nassau County Sheriff's Office Marine Unit was out patrolling when it received a distress call from a boat around 11:15 a.m. local time. When they arrived, they...
In a rare event, two shark attacks injured three people on Walton County beaches in Florida Friday afternoon. Now the mother of one of the teenage victims is sharing what happened to her daughter. The First Attack TheWalton County sheriff's office and firefightersresponded to a call ...
The man, who is in his 40s, was on a boat at the time of the attack, which unfolded around 11 a.m. Friday at West Rock near the port of Fernandina, which is north of Jacksonville near the Florida-Georgia border, Nassau County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Alicia Tarancon said. ...
The girl was scalloping in water approximately 5 feet deep near Grassy Island, just of Keaton Beach, when she was bitten by the shark, the Taylor County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. One of the girl's family members reportedly jumped in the water and beat the shark off of ...
A 14-year-old boy was bitten by a shark Wednesday in Daytona Beach, Florida, local authorities said. The teen, who was visiting from Missouri, was bitten on his left foot while standing in knee-deep water, according to the Volusia County Beach O...
It’s the third shark attack in Florida in June. The other two attacks in the Florida panhandle in early June left three people injured and led to the temporary closure of beaches in Walton County. Three more attacks wer...
It’s the third shark attack in Florida in June. Theother two attacksin the Florida panhandle in early June left three people injured and led to the temporary closure of beaches in Walton County. Three more attacks were reported in the U.S. — one inSouthern Californiaand two inHawaii, ...