ISAF Shark ATTACK Report 2022!

Join shark scientist Kristian Parton as he talks you through ISAF shark attack report 2022. Learn all about the shark attack hostpots around the world, and an interesting classification of "provoked" for the Simon Nellist Shark attack last year.

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[tomato]

Simon was bitten in half and consumed. This was NOT a territorial warning, mistaken identity or provocation. This was a feeding event. You can provoke a bite but when the shark comes back for the rest you've got a hungry shark - and there was Simon.

[moparsrule]

The section of ocean where Simon was killed looks like the most unlikely place anybody would want to swim, did not look inviting at all, looks like a place your nightmares are lurking and they are.

[sundance]

As an Australian who has always lived on the coast and swam in the ocean, what concerns me the most is the proliferation of Bull Sharks that are naturally aggressive and swim in the shallows. The increase in shark attacks in the last 10 years is frightening.

[technicaldifficultiesgamin]

Something I know of fishing in the big pond is shark and seals will go after hooked fish even if they were caught on a lure not bait. Hope this is helpful info

[juliehoddle]

The Simon Nellis attack was tragic and I cannot understand why it is classed as provoked. The dinner bell rang when he swam over that deep trench, he was taken from below and torpedoed out of the water with the shark and didn't stand a chance. I doubt it had anything to do with the rock fishing, people have been fishing there for generations but very few people swim there. The shark also came back for a second bite, it fully intended to take what remained of Simon. We live close to the coast, we spend a lot of time in the sea and we stay where it's safe, sadly Simon didn't. We are in the sharks domain as soon as we walk into the water.🇦🇺

[toscadonna]

The fishing was going on quite a distance from Simon. Simon was swimming right over a big drop off where these big sharks like to hide in preparation for ambush. I don’t think the fishing had anything to do with it. She was just really hungry, and he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[iasminnaara]

One topic I would love to see you talk about is the great amount of shark bites that happen in Pernambuco, Brazil. Some people call Recife, it's capital, the "Shark Capital". In the last 15 days there were 3 shark bites, 2 of them being in the same beach (Piedade Beach in the metropolitan region of Recife) and only 24 hours apart, a 14 year old boy and a 15 year old girl. The other one happened in Olinda beach (also metropolitan region of Recife) with a 34 year old man. The interesting thing about those incidents is that before 1992, there were as many incidents in Pernambuco as there were in any other Brazilian states. But since the opening of the Suape Port in 92 there have been 77 incidents in Pernambuco with a 33.7% death rate (26 deaths), most of them being either in Boa Viagem (also in Recife) or Piedade. Marine biologists from the region point out that the port may be one of the biggest reasons the bites have been more frequent since it caused a major environmental degradation, forcing the sharks to relocate to the near beaches. Another crazy thing is that from Piedade beach to Boa Viagem beach swimming isn't allowed and there are several signs distributed all over that read "DO NOT SWIM, HIGH RISK OF SHARK ATTACK", but people are dumb enough to get in the water nonetheless and every year the number of incidents increases. I'm pretty sure these incidents don't go to the yearly ISAF unprovoked bites, considering people go to these beaches aware that swimming has been prohibited for years due to the high risk of getting bitten. Anyways, super cool video!

[Aaron_Hanson]

If Simon’s attack is classified as a provoked attack, then every shark attack (excluding boating accidents) should be seen as a provoked attack. “You were in the water, you knew the risk”
To record his attack as provoked by ISAF is ridiculous. It’s actually closer to disgusting and shameful in my opinion. I’ve lived on the NSW Central Coast all my life and grown up in and around it’s beaches and rivers. If I was ever attacked, I’d hate for my attack to be classified as provoked!

[ArmouryTerrain]

Sadly we just had a fatal incident in the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia. 16 year old girl attacked by what is thought to be a bull shark. First fatal attack in that river sine 1923.

Lots of interesting information in this video.

[itsjustlyle]

Fisherman here. It's not the bait or lures that draws sharks in, it's the floundering of the fish being caught, which I'd have thought would be obvious. Sharks are drawn to splashing near the surface, which is of course exactly what Simon was doing too.

[TheScarletView]

Classifying the Simon Nellist incident as "provoked" is absolutely insane. Yes fishing was happening in the area however, the victim did not do anything to provoke the attack itself. The ISAF's classification system is realy, really misleading every year.

[rdigital]

Can't wait to hear Hal's opinions on this. He doesn't hold back. Sharks Happen people

[ourcorrectopinions]

He seemed like a genuinely good bloke. His death saddens me. Thanks for the classy video, as always.

[StLProgressive]

I’d think that the ongoing pandemic would be a factor in why the numbers were lower, not as many people traveling means not as many people in the water.

[ftgoggi]

numerous attacks on spear fishermen inc. fatal attacks, they were all recorded as provoked yes? If not then there's something very very wrong with the categorization of the SN predation as provoked and it raises serious questions as to who's interests are being protected. Spear fishermen are fishing in the water, if SN was provoked then you can't get more provoked than spear fishermen!!

[thomasstroh]

That classification of the Simon Nellist attack sounds like a mere means to bring the numbers down while laying blame to other people to me. Yes there were anglers on the rocks as we all saw in the footage. But anglers tend to fish where there are a lot of fish (otherwise the whole activity wouldn't make much sense, would it). As everybody knows, schools of fish draw in predators that want to prey on them (like the anglers), and in the ocean, that means a concentration of fish may draw in sharks preying either on the fish themselves or on their predators (e.g. marine mammals). If that was a valid reason to classify that attack as "provoked", all attacks that happen near locations where the natural prey of sharks is abundant should be classified as "provoked". I think that wouldn't leave many "unprovoked" attacks. As far as I'm concerned, that classification of the Nellist attack is BS.

[saturnskull]

At this point I don't think that anyone can safely state if an attack was provoked or not. But I've seen the video and I've seen the waters he swam in, I think it was pure crazy to swim there. Moreover I've seen some interviews of bystanders and a guy said that the water is very deep and murky and noone would swim there alone, only in groups. Not that it would change anything I suppose, but it was clear that these were dangerous waters to be swimming into... Very sad about Simon though...

[Kaleb.D.Watts]

the Simon Nellist attack was unprovoked in my opinion, that white shark would have been in the area regardless. Also he did nothing to provoke that shark, it willingly attacked him.

[juanitopprofundo]

Following this logic, all shark attacks on humans are provoked, because any minimal stimulus that could attract the shark (splashing, vibrations, spearfishing, electromagnetic impulses from a motor or from the victim's own nervous system) would be an incitement to the shark. to attack, which is completely absurd.
But even if we could consider fishing to be a means of provoking the attack, it wasn't Simon who did the activity and he probably didn't even know they were fishing there, so it's still stupid to classify it as a provoked attack.
It is as if we unknowingly walked past a bear feeding point that we did not see, one of them attacked us and the authorities decided that it really is our fault for passing by, even if we went our own way without disturbing them.

[waltzingpeter]

It’s absolutely ridiculous the Simon Nellist attack is classified as provoked. That way they should classify any case where a human goes into the water as provoked.