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Old June 20th, 2014 #47
Alex Linder
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As reports of sharks swimming in the Alabama Gulf Coast started flowing in to FOX10 News, we dug deeper to see the history of shark attacks in the area.

In Alabama, in the past 12 years, five people have been attacked by sharks; none of the attacks have been fatal according to data released by the International Shark Attack File (ISAF), a project housed on the Florida Museum of Natural History website.

Alabama shark attacks
This graphic shows the number of shark attacks in Alabama since 2001, along with the fatalities resulting from those attacks.

In Florida waters, the story is different, of nearly 300 shark attacks there since 2001, three have been fatal. As for the other Gulf States, Texas has seen 18 attacks with no deaths. Louisiana and Mississippi don’t appear in the ISAF data for that period.

Since 2001, of 477 people attacked by sharks in the most active areas in the US, 12 have died.

http://fox10tv.com/2014/06/09/blog-s...ng-gulf-coast/