The DEADLIEST 12 Mile Coastline on Earth (Recife Shark Attacks)

Join shark scientist Kristian Parton as he delves into the recife shark attacks. The beaches of Recife have seen over 70 shark attacks in 30 years - what is causing these attacks, and why did they start? Tune in to find out why this 12 mile stretch of coastline is one of the deadliest on Earth.

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[ancaladomcz]

Hello from Brazil, I was born in Recife but I don't live there anymore, but as I have a family and like Recife I go there constantly. I've been waiting for this video since I discovered your channel, congratulations on the approach and continue with the quality of the videos, hugs from Recife.

[bwillow]

As an Aussie, not many animals scare me, but bull sharks are an exception! Glad to see you back Kris 😊

[LibertwinsBR]

I am brazilian and I think is totally crazy that locals still swimming there with no worries.
This beach is crowd EVERYDAY.

[gabriel-blckhwk-]

Finally someone doing a longer video of the shark attacks here in Brazil, the real number of attacks here in Brazil are always a mystery, they avoid at all cost create panic, usually they say the victim died by drowning and only later was bite by sharks. Awesome video Kristian! Are you sure that girl who died was from US? Never heard of it, weird.

[KyriosMirage]

Shark Bytes is back! Sundays are worthwhile again!

[PaoloCalvi]

I lived in a city close by and I can absolutely confirm that the slaughter house is one of the well known causes of this aggressive behaviors.

[GothPaoki]

I'm amazed there haven't been more attacks there under these conditions.

[arthurolimpio]

Recife resident here! Thanks for the video! It also pays to mention the sheer amount of politics involved with Suape (obviously), how they manufactured "scientific" articles to make it seem they didn't do any damage and that project of fishing sharks and returning them to the deep? Well, the guy who created that was highly controversial as there was several reports of his "scientific research" boats fishing and KILLING bull and tiger sharks which led many to make conspiracy theories about how he was actually on a payroll from the prefecture to cull the sharks. And since he was a well-respected figure among the federal and rural universities, he had a cult following of eager grad-students to do his bidding, he also had a lot of enemies, like a lot, especially the environmentalists, he was stone cold and I know someone from the inside that has actually received death threats and intimidation techniques for trying to expose him. Serious stuff. Apparently the project stopped because it got to heated and the prefecture just decided to end it. Also shout out to Lawrence Wahbas' documentary about the Recife attacks! :D

[MichaelCampin]

Sounds like the ideal place for Solicitors to go on holiday as they wont get attacked due to professional courtesy

[tessa]

its so awesome to see a country not immediately going to culling sharks! and clearly their method worked :)

[sharks]

Another awesome video Kris. 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈
Glad to see SHARK BYTES popping up in my notifications again. I agree with your reasoning 100%. Everything adds up. I also agree that the majority of these shark bites were bull sharks. When you said that Recife was bordered by 2 rivers, I immediately thought "bull sharks". I heard about a couple of these attacks when Tracking Sharks did videos on a couple of them.

[leandrometfan]

I'm born and raised 3.000KM away from recife at an estuary island close to São Paulo and have seen sharks here more than a dozen times.

[samanthaburt]

I have 'The Mammoth Book of Shark Attacks' and Recife appears in it a few times but the book only covers shark attacks from the 1900 and ends Jan 2013 so no data after that. I agree the slaughterhouse and the port would have factored into the spike in attacks. I know one thing though for definite, I would NEVER get into the sea especially around Recife!! Great work Christian! I love Shark Bytes

[a.andraden]

11:36 as a Brazilian and northwestern who lives in the neighbor state to Pernambuco i can say we have the same conditions, same topography, same shark especies visiting here in Paraíba but we have the right environment, the ecosystem is balanced and there’s plenty of food. On top of that our most visited beaches have a reef barrier protecting everyone, but we still have beaches without the reef barrier and we have history of only one attack in all these years. You can easily spot sharks, dolphins and other marine life here and thankfully to this day we didn’t messed up our environment in such a way that would cause such disturbance to the animals and humans. Regardless Recife is still onde of the prettiest cities and you definitely can swim safely in neighboring states and cities like the one i live (João Pessoa in Paraíba). I was waiting for this video and absolutely loved it! p.s. You should definitely come here to see these beauties by yourself 😍

[Jesstabulous]

Me having watched this channel for a while now and getting hindsight having realized how stupid I was as a teen (I am mid 30s now). I had walked out waist/chest deep, more than half the length of a very long pier out fascinated how far I could get and still walk on the bottom (being 5’3” I was impressed), with some curious seals “playing” nearby me finding it so fun to have “sea puppies” so close thinking I was safe cuz hey I am next to the pier we good right, and not understanding why I was getting yelled at to go back to shore 👀 (this was a California coast in the summer months)

Yeah, I get it now, I realize how lucky I was not to have a negative shark encounter 👀

[cc_]

I’m a simple man. I see a shark sign, I don’t go in the water. Lol although ironically I went to dive with the great white and didn’t see any ..
Go figure! Haha
Great video dude!

[Felipefrrl]

I'm from Recife, bornt and live here, all my childhood going to this beach and i still go. I'm surprised with your video. Really well done 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
These attacks are more in Piedade beach, in front of the curch area. The other areas even with no coral reef are a little safe.
But i prefer go to south coast of Pernambuco state (Porto de Galinhas, Muro alto, Carneiros, Tamandare, Calhetas, Gaibu...) no attacks there.
And the girl that you said she died, she was from Brazil. Thank you for the video

[TheVid]

I swam in Recife a lot between 1998 and 2000. The beach was right across the street from my best friend's condo complex. I don't remember there being any warning signs about sharks way back then, but there were some real nasty riptides on that beach if you were an inexperienced swimmer, and no warning signs for those either. There were plenty of beach goers always there, so it never occurred to me that I was in any danger.

[sharkgk]

That's the most informative breakdown on Recife I've seen! Well done!

[snafoomagee]

Fascinating, I really love your breakdowns of the factors which can affect shark/human interactions.