Sentences with phrase «international shark attack»

Some call lawyers sharks, but they seem harmless compared to the sharks tracked at the International Shark Attack File, a site that compiles all known shark attacks.

Although Frank J. Schwartz, a shark biologist with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, says there's too much natural variability in weather cycles to blame the recent shark attacks on global warming, George H. Burgess, the director of the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

«Certainly anytime we have a situation like that where there's such overwhelming media attention, it's going to leave a memory in the population,» says George Burgess, curator of the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History, who fielded 30 to 40 media calls a day that summer.

In fact, according to the International Shark Attack File, lightning is a much bigger hazard than sharks.

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According to the International Shark Attack File, a database maintained by the Florida Museum of Natural History that tracks shark - human incidents, there were only 72 «unprovoked» shark attacks last year globally.

Your chances of being attacked by a shark are just 1 in 11.5 million, according to the University of Florida's International Shark Attack File.

Not exact matches

Jeffrey Kleintop at Schwab has posted a fascinating article on the dangers and returns of international and US investing using the example of a shark attack.

The chart below shows us what stock market shark attacks look like using the relative performance of US and international stock indexes.