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Are sharks really dangerous? Quick Answer No. Scientific evidence shows that shark attacks are exceptionally rare. Millions of people swim, snorkel, surf, dive every year without incident. Sharks are far more at risk from humans than humans are from sharks. Understanding the facts helps replace fear with knowledge. Why do so many people fear sharks? Few wild animals have a reputation quite like the shark. Films, television programmes, newspaper headlines all tend to focus on

Imagine, for a moment, an ocean without sharks. At first it might seem like good news. No more circling fins. No more fear in the water. The very thing so many people dread, simply gone. For a while little appears to change. Then, slowly, the cracks begin to show. Fish populations swing wildly out of balance. Coral reefs start to sicken. The catches that feed whole coastal communities begin to fail. An ocean that once ran like clockwork comes, piece by piece, apart. This is n

Somewhere in the cold black water beneath the Arctic ice, a shark is moving slowly through the dark. It is in no hurry. It has never been in a hurry. This animal may have been alive when Isaac Newton was writing about gravity. It may have been born before the first factory chimney ever rose over Europe. It is a Greenland shark. It could be approaching four hundred years old. Sharks have a way of bending our sense of time. Partly because individuals like this one can outlive a