I'm going from memory. I ws pretty sleepy while
watching the show.

The list was based on the number of attacks and
the number of fatalities. The number of fatalities
was pretty low 0 to 3 fatalities at the bottom of the
list, increasing to138 for the Great White.

Many of these sharks hit and run.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/sharks1.html

"DSK" wrote

OzOne wrote:
Hmmmm, Interesting.
I have pics here of my daughter at 14 swimming with grey reef sharks.
They are virtually harmless so it doesn't say much for 7 8 9 and 10

Nurse sharks & sand sharks can be dangerous under some circumstance...
while it's not difficult to identify feeding cues for them, it is
difficult to tell when they'll strike. In bright light, in shallow water,
a well fed reef (nurse or sand) shark is no more dangerous than a
kitten... feeding cues are totally absent... safe for people to get their
picture taken cuddling them!

Hammerheads can definitely be killers. I'm surprised they're not higher up
the list, although maybe it's because they don't usually grow big enough
to seem like a threat.

But even a relatively small shark can cause a serious enough injury to be
fatal, and once blood is in the water then all the sharks within reach
will attack.

But the statistics show that sharks really aren't that dangerous... more
people die of bee stings every year.

DSK