Ammon News - Shark attacks — particularly deadly ones — dropped substantially last year around the world, a new report shows.

The latest iteration of the International Shark Attack File, a database run by the Florida Museum of Natural History and the University of Florida, showed that shark attacks decreased dramatically in 2024 and was far below the annual average.

"Unprovoked shark bites plummeted in 2024," reads the headline of the report, which characterized the year as "exceptionally calm" for shark bites.

Of 88 alleged shark-human interactions that researchers say they investigated last year, 71 bites were confirmed. The report segmented those incidents into unprovoked and provokes bites, of which there were 47 and 24, respectively. Seven of the attacks were fatal, including four unprovoked attacks, according to the research.

Those figures did not account for instances where sharks attacked a boat or bit a human who was already dead. Several additional incidents where a person's injuries could not be indisputably attributed to a shark, over another predatory marine creature, were categorized as "unconfirmed" in the report. CBS