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Shark safety tips: sorting out fact from fiction

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageThere are certain times and locations where people are more likely to encounter a shark.Morne Hardenberg

There are more than 500 species of shark and only three of them pose a significant threat to humans. These are the great white, bull or Zambezi and tiger shark.

The probability of being bitten by a shark is statistically extremely low. There were...

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