Swimming Can Be A Beach

Planning a vacation this winter? Before you start checking flights, you might want to cross these places off your list. Each year there are about 50 to 70 confirmed shark attacks and 5 to 15 shark-attack fatalities around the world. The numbers have risen over the past several decades but not because sharks are more aggressive: Humans have simply taken to coastal waters in increasing numbers. However, I'm not sure the reason would matter that much if I was lying bleeding on the beach waiting for the paramedics to arrive.

While experts say that coconuts kill far more people each year, I still would feel safer having a beer under a palm tree than swimming in the waters pictured below. All of these beaches listed below are home to some of the most aggressive, predatory species of sharks, according to experts.


-Kosi Bay, South Africa: Zambezi sharks
-Gansbaai, South Africa (“Shark Alley"): Great white sharks
-Brisbane, Australia: Great whites, bulls
-Bolinas Beach, Northern California: Great whites
-New Smyrna Beach, Florida: Blacktip and spinner sharks
-Umhlanga Rocks, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa: Great white and bull sharks
-North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii: Galapagos sharks, sandbar sharks, tigers
-Recife, Brazil: Bull sharks
-Kahana, West Maui, Hawaii: Tiger Sharks
-West End, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas: Tiger Sharks