West Coast is Great White Shark Buffet
By Steve Casimiro, Adventure Journal on January 19th, 2012
According to the Shark Research Committee, the first decade of the 21st century saw U.S. Pacific Ocean shark attacks jump fivefold over the previous century’s average. In 2011 alone there were eight attacks on the West Coast, compared to a 20th century average of just one a year. For the decade there were 64, while 1901 to 1999 saw just 108. The big culprit? Great whites, implicated in 86 percent of the incidents. Via Shark Research Committee.
