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Shark attacks decline in world, not in Florida
Associated Press
Published February 14, 2006
GAINESVILLE - Shark attacks worldwide dropped in 2005, continuing a five-year trend, the director of the International Shark Attack File said Monday.
There were 58 attacks in 2005, compared with 65 in 2004, and the number of fatal attacks fell from seven to four, said George Burgess, director of the monitoring program.
In 2000, there were a record 78 attacks, 11 fatal.
The number of attacks in the United States rose from 30 in 2004 to 38 in 2005 - though well below the record of 52 in 2000 - and in Florida, still the U.S. shark attack capital, the number rose from 12 to 18, still far under the record of 37, Burgess said.
One of last year's four fatalities occurred in Florida, on June 25, when Jamie Daigle, 14, of Gonzales, La., was attacked by a bull shark while swimming off Miramar Beach near Destin in the Panhandle. It was the state's first fatal shark attack in four years.
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