What do you think is making sea wild animals (sharks) attack people?

Question

Here, where I live, there has been several attacks but no deaths. A lot of the surfers encounter these sharks, some of them have had their surfboard bitten. Like last weekend, a 66 year old man bled to death because a white shark attacked him..in San Diego. I surf and swim in the ocean and so far I haven't seen any sharks, but I hope I never encounter any!

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4725858

Answer 1

That happened one community down from me, about 4 miles....it was horrible........we have dolphins and California Humpback Whales, and I've seen sharks when I'm body surfing, but thought nothing of it.....Now I think twice, but that hasn't gotten me out of the water.....It's a calculated risk, just like driving in traffic......It's a bit unnerving, though.....

Christopher K.    (Encinitas, California, one city north of Solana Beach, where the tragedy happened:  I knew the guy, and he was an awsomely nice gent......what a way to go......Sad........

Answer 2

We are in there natural habitat, they mistake us for seals or turtles sometimes and sometimes I think they just eat us because they are hungry.

Answer 3

Sharks don't usually attack humans. If they think that you are food they will attack you. Sometimes they could have been going through rough times getting prey and attack you out of hunger. Also some sharks are aggressive about territory and if you accidentally intrude on the boundaries they will attack you.

It is really unusual that they are attacking so often nowadays.. Maybe for younger sharks it is becoming an instinct to attack humans?

Answer 4

hunger.

Answer 5

It is not in a normal shark nature to attack humans.  They may mystake people for oter prey.  The main reason is b/c sharks can smell blood like a dog smells meat.  The blood is a stimulente to them.  It is there instenct.  They attack suffering animals.  So the people attacked may of had a open cut, peeled scab, and so on, or were around someone with these conditions.  As long as there is no blood around, you should be safe.

Answer 6

Oh. for Pete's sake! This has been happening since there were both sharks and humans in the water. It is the exception, rather than the rule. When I was in LA, I was doing a project on an island in the gulf of Mexico. It was our practice for a couple of us to swim in from the boat each morning. We knew that there were sharks in the water. What we learned later was that the Navy tested its shark repellants there because of the high concentration of sharks. We never had any trouble although we had a couple of close encounters.

Answer 7

Most of the people on this site would swear it is global warming.

Answer 8

In the 1940's (when most were born) there was an abundance of human food put in the oceans, even before that. Humans have been chumming and dumping for generations. Now every little human meat available for sharks. Then we are eating more of their food, killing them and destroying their habitat.

At least if I was writing a PHD theist this is what I would present.

Answer 9

It's a survival thing. They need to eat meat to survive and they don't care what they have to do to get it.