Which shark is most dangerous to humans?

Question

That is which shark is most likely to encounter humans and attack.

Answer 1

I think that it is a Tiger Shark or a Bull shark.

A Great White is going to attack you more likely out of mistaking you for a seal... or giving you an investigatory bite.

The Tiger or Bull would actively look to attack you on purpose.

White tips and Bronze whalers and Blue sharks are also quite aggressive and may attack

Answer 2

The Southern African Zambezi shark is similar to the Bull Shark because of its ability to tolerate low salinity waters, but it is a much more voracious and successful predator than the Bull shark due to the types of rivers they enter. These rivers, unlike most of the North American rivers the Bull shark inhabits, are used for much more than recreation. The fishing practices are also different and involve much more human contact with the water. Hence more attacks, injuries and fatalities occur as a result. In terms of most fatal attacks, due to the nature of its size, it is the Great White, but no shark actively hunts humans. Shark attacks are usually the result of investigation by the shark, testing to see if the human in the water is suitable prey. If sharks actively sought out human prey, no human being would survive to tell the tales of these shark attacks.

Answer 3

great white

Answer 4

The Loan Shark!

Answer 5

tigershark

Answer 6

THE KHAR COS & GHILGHIN SHARK IS THE MOST DANGEROUS...

Answer 7

well put it this was Great White Shark- 311 human attacks

Tiger Shark- 104 human attacks

Bull Shark- 69 human attacks

Grey Nurse Shark- 53 human attacks

Requiem Shark- 42 human attacks

They are responsible for the most attacks on humans, in that order (between the years of 1554-1997).

also we're more dangerous to them at the end of the day. weve killed more or them than they have killed us.

Answer 8

Probably the bull shark. It is fresh/salt water. They found  by St Louis a few years back in the Mississippi River. It has more options and breeds well. And hangs around on the coast. In India and Africa supposedly hundreds of attacks go unreported.

  Now the least likely to survive after an attack would probably be the Great White or Tiger.

Also can't forget the Oceanic White Tip. The shark that got the crew of the USS Indianapolis.

Answer 9

Sharks are not dangerous. They are efficient. I can understand how an advanced predator might occasionally take a bite out of a human by mistake. I can definitely understand one doing it on purpose. What I don't get is the unjustifiable massacre of sharks by humans. We are purportedly extremely clever. This intelligence denies us the right to be so short-sighted and selfish.

Answer 10

Tiger shark

Answer 11

This is a common but very difficult question to answer, but first to clear up a few facts regarding the Bull Shark. The Bull Shark, like every other species, does not ever 'hunt' humans, although admittedly, it can be an aggressive species. The Bull Shark, which is actually the same as the Zambezi Shark (South African name) is one of the few 'river sharks' that will enter fresh water systems and therefore bring it into contact with more people. It is highly likely that many shark attacks where the species was difficult to identify could actually be the result of the Bull Shark, but this can only ever be speculation.

Very few attacks on humans result in the continual feeding by the shark and eventual consumption of the victim. They are almost always single test bites where the shark is simply assessing the potential food value of the unfortunate human. Due to the power and size of the Bull, Tiger and Great White this can result in death, but usually through sustained blood loss as opposed to the severity of the initial injury. So these are the three main 'culprits' in the 'worlds most dangerous shark league table' but to answer the original question, you have to consider other facts such as the unreported attacks, where, as mentioned elsewhere, shipwreck victims may not die from drowning, but instead fall victim, to Blue, Oceanic Whitetip and Silky Sharks, and which probably account for more deaths than the Great White, Tiger or Bull Shark put together

Another possible contender for this rather unfair accolade is the Blacktip Shark, which is responsible for the majority of attacks that happen around the Daytona to New Smyrna Beach area of the Florida coastline, an area with the highest number of reported attacks anywhere in the world, and also thankfully, virtually never fatal.

Although the worlds most dangerous shark to humans is a valid question to ask, sharks are very unfairly represented the world over and desperately need protection from us, not the other way around.

Answer 12

The shark with the most attacks on humans is the Whaler or Bull Shark, also known as the Zambizi or Ghanges Shark as it can tolerate fresh water. It is also to be found in quite shallow costal waters of 3 feet or less which co incidently is a) where most humans are and b) most "attacks" on humans happen.

You will notice that the word "attacks" has been high lighted as most are exploritory bites to find out what we are and not feeding bites which remove vast quantites of flesh.

This can of course come as little comfort to the victim but more people die in a day from accidental bee stings than in a year from shark "attacks" so we must have some perspective.

The most dangerous animal on the planet is us, just ask all the extinct ones the human race has wiped out!!!

Answer 13

THE BULL SHARK

Answer 14

watch out for bull sharks would they kill you in 2 minutes

Answer 15

Jaws...LOL...Just kidding i Think it's the great white shark but all i know is that most dangerous one to find in the back yard like a lake is a tger shark...Hey watch discovery channel it's shark week...

Answer 16

The Great White shark is the most dangerous to humans, lets put it this way i'd rather be in the water with a tiger shark or bull shark than a Great White, other sharks maybe more volitile, but lets put it another way three different people are attacked by three different sharks the 1st a Bull shark the 2nd a Tiger shark and the 3rd a Great White shark...who do you think the least likely to survive?

Answer 17

I think it is a Lone Shark, if you miss one payment then your badly hurt. Miss two payments then your dead.

Answer 18

The bull shark. This is a widespread abundant coastal warm water species that is more numerous than the tiger shark or great white and thus likely to be encountered by humans more often.

Please also note that the list of attacks by particular sharks are largely inaccurate and do not tell the true story. It is often impossible to tell precisely what species of shark were actually responsible for most attacks. Thus the bull shark has likely many many times the number of attacks in reality compared to those actually attributed to it on the official lists.

In contrast, the great white shark is readily identified almost every time it attacks a human and so there are likely to be very few attacks by great white sharks which go unrecorded. In a nutshell, it is easy to finger a great white shark as the attacking species, unlike with the bull shark. With the great white, it's size and power and method of attack is very unlikely to be confused with other shark species and, more often than not, the areas where most great white sharks attacks occur, such as California, southern Australia and the western Cape of South Africa do not have tiger and bull sharks so whenever a shark attack happens in those locations we can be sure it is the work of a great white and no other species.

The bull shark shares it's range with a large number of other shark species known for attacks or nips/bites on man and as previously stated it is often very hard to be totally sure of the identity of the attacker, particularly when the wounds are slight, as is the case in most shark attacks. Most bull shark attacks, nips and bites likely go uncredited to it.

Answer 19

bull shark, they eat anything and unlike great whites can swim in salt or fresh water. but some of the big ones including the bull shark are the great white, tiger, oceanic whitetip shark.

of course you are more likely to be killed by a cocanut than a shark.

Answer 20

there are two ;- the Great White and the Hammer Head.

Answer 21

An excellent way of phrasing the question!  Several sharks species, salmon sharks or porbeagle sharks for instance, would be dangerous except they rarely occur as adults in waters with humans (both live in cold waters).

Bull sharks, as has been noted, encounter people more often than the others due to their fresh water tolerances.  (Note that bull sharks are in the family of requiem sharks.)  White sharks and tiger sharks also tend to frequent costal areas where people swim.

Answer 22

The Great Whites, especially now humans have started to feed them!

Answer 23

bull shark

Answer 24

I work with sharks. Please go to our website: www.sharktrust.org.

Actually, we encounter sharks many times in our lives. These encounters should be treated as an honour for us. Sharks are amazing animals which unfortunately, due to humans, are now at alarmingly low numbers. Each year, we kill 113 million sharks, 73 million of those for their fins alone. Each year only around 4 humans are killed by sharks. These "attacks" as you call them are accidental bites. Unfortunately due to loss of blood or shock, we struggle to survive a bad bite. You will find that a shark may mouth a human but immediately let go. You ask which sharks are more likely to 'attack'? A shark will only bite a human under certain circumstances and these circumstances depend entirely upon the species of shark. People need to be less ignorant and try to understand sharks and their behaviour. If you learn how to respect the animal and how to be safe in their environment, you will not get bitten. I have been diving with sharks now for 15 years. I have dived with Great Whites, tigers, bulls (the big three), along with hundreds of other species. I have spent many many hours in their company and I have never once been bitten or hurt.

I can honestly tell you that I feel a lot safer underwater with sharks than I do on land with people!!!!!

Answer 25

Most sharks are dangerous to human, we cannot pinpoint on which sharks is most dangerous as we dont have enough and accurate info about shark attacks. Base on my research great white, bull and mako are the most dangerous. With great vast oceans and unreported shark attacks since time immemorial, thank God, that this monster did not evolve to become amphibian creature or esle human will become extinct. If people live in the oceans, every second there will be shark attack, but less than one percent of human population at a given time that people goes to the sea for recreation and or fishing, in spite of that, people get attack.

Answer 26

The answer above does state the number of known attacks but, the Bull Shark is more dangerous to humans as it actually hunts human as prey. Also, Bull Sharks can swim into fresh water rivers and in parts of Australia and Africa do so regularly to hunt humans. They are often responsible for attacks blamed on other species, a truly amazing creature...

Great Whites tend to bite humans thinking they are a seal and then release because they do not feed on human meat - problem is with a Great White is that their bite radius is so huge it tends to do an awful lot of damage from a single bite...

I love sharks... Awesome fish...

Answer 27

I believe that it is the bull shark

Answer 28

Sharks dont encounter humans we encounter sharks. As for the most dangerous they are already listed above. The sea is their domain and has been for 400 million years. As humans we kill in excess of 100 million of them every year and a few of them kill us. Most by accident but some due to hunger as we are effectively over fishing the entire ocean. More than half the oceans productivity is taken by man (in excess of 100 million tonnes) so the odd one may get a bit hungry . On the whole humans have not been around long enough to be a prey species to one of the most advanced marine predators. Sharks keep the oceans fit by removing the weak. They suffer no diseases and have immune responses that destroy cancers totally. They have fantastic olfactory organs and can smell a drop of blood over a kilometer away. We should look after this animal and stop the barbaric fin trade. Cutting the fins of a shark then throwing it back live shows how little human beings respect one of the greatest creatures on earth and one that could give us some great medical advances.

Sharks have no bones only cartilage and are part of the elasmobranch subclass as are rays and skates. Dog fish are sharks and their skin used to be used as sandpaper as you will know if you have caught one. Trying to get it off the hook it will rub its body against your hand which can take your skin off-- a very close encounter with a shark!