Shark Attacks On The Rise
Shark attacks in Florida and North Carolina have made headlines in the last two weeks or so and some are wondering if it will be safe to go to the beach this summer.
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Shark attacks in Florida and North Carolina have made headlines in the last two weeks or so and some are wondering if it will be safe to go to the beach this summer.
Walking slowly and steadily, Lacy Webb Martin is ready to tell the story of her vacation—which quite quickly turned into a tale of survival.
A man was released from the hospital Monday after he was treated for a shark bite over the weekend.
Just before his ninth birthday, a central Florida boy—while in the water with his mother—was bit by a shark.
Shark experts in Fort Lauderdale have issued a B.O.L.O., or Be On The Lookout, for a missing mako shark.
While the state of Florida is the well-known shark-bite capital of the world, it's not necessarily the scariest place to be attacked by a shark.
An alligator showed up at Hobie Beach off the Rickenbacker Causeway.
Headed for the Keys this weekend? May want to think before jumping into the ocean as Katharine, a 14-foot great white shark, is back—and is swimming in the waters just off Islamorada.
The Coast Guard has called-off the search Wednesday for a man who went missing during a shark diving venture in the Bahamas Sunday.
Crews are searching for a 63-year-old man who never resurfaced after diving into the waters of the Bahamas during a commercial shark diving venture.
Wildlife officials are trying to catch a bull shark in Florida, but not from the ocean, from a land-locked pond located in a popular park.
A South Florida woman is out of surgery and recuperating Monday after her leg was bit by a shark in Fort Lauderdale Sunday afternoon.
A wayward great white shark named "Betsy" has turned up off the Florida coast. Ocearch reports that "Betsy," was found swimming in the Gulf of Mexico about 63 miles off Boca Grande.
It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon just off Deerfield Beach. Adam Fisk, an avid fisherman, was fishing off his kayak when all the sudden he gets the catch of a lifetime.
A South Florida man had a run in with a shark off Delray Beach and lived to talk about it.
Four employees of a two Palm Beach dive boat operations have been charged with illegally feeding sharks in state waters - a practice which has been banned for a dozen years.
Sea Breeze High School football star Raushod Floyd has been hit plenty of times on the football field, but nothing compares to the blow he took while swimming over the weekend.
Researchers at Florida State University made quite the unusual catch in the Gulf of Mexico recently.
A man is recovering from getting attacked by a shark near Scotland Cay in the Bahamas.
A South Florida teen is recovering after he was bitten by a shark over the weekend.
Sections of Deerfield Beach are closed to swimmers as dozens and dozens of sharks make their annual migration north just off shore.
From a plane above you can see them. The massive amounts of black dots are presumably black tip sharks. The congregations are all along Palm Beach's shoreline and slowly thins out as you move towards Miami-Dade County.
A Jackson Memorial Hospital trauma surgeon who treated a man bitten in the calf by something in the ocean off Miami Beach last weekend still doesn't know exactly what caused the injury.
A South Beach man is recovering from a shark attack bite while swimming near a South Beach hotel.
A fisherman in the Florida Keys got quite a scare after catching a nurse shark which bit him in the calf, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
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