Humans May Be to Blame for Shark Attacks

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Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:26 PM ET

An apparent increase in shark attacks may well have a human cause, with low-cost air travel but also over-fishing and possibly global warming among the hidden suspects, say experts.

Headlines this week were grabbed by a decision to close beaches in the Seychelles after a shark savaged a British honeymooner before the horrified gaze of his spouse, in the second fatal attack there in 15 days.

In Russia's Pacific coastal region of Primorye, a shark mauled a 16-year-old boy a day after a man lost his forearms defending his wife. In the Caribbean, a woman vacationing in Puerto Rico received a foot-long shark bite as she swam in a tourist haunt, the bioluminescent bay of Vieques.

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[ZombieHorde]

1. I think eating people is just trendy with sharks right now.

The shark version of Brad Pitt was seen eating a person, now all the sharks want to eat a person.

I'm joking.

[Ian David]

2. Sharks only eat people on special occasions. It's a status symbol. n/t

[MineralMan]

3. I blame Sherman's Lagoon.

Always with the eating of hairless beach apes.