Do sharks really eat people?

Question

I just saw open water, and wondered if sharks really do eat people?

ok smart ellecks...if so, then why in open water, when a shark bit his leg & there was blood all over, why didn't sharks eat them right then & there????

Answer 1

thecnically, sharks prefer to not incude humans in their diet, probably because were too low in fat content, unlike ,say, seals. sharks only take test bites out of people to see if we could be good prey or they mistake us for seals and turtles, they are also attracted to splashing because they think it is a fish in distress.. theyre not stupid, most are really intelligent and have refined senses. and there are barely 80 attacks per year in statistics-with rare fatalities. and not all shark attacks include a limb being torn off, some are harmless nips on the hand from small, courious pygmy or angel sharks. compare 80 attacks on people per year with millions of sharks being killed every year. we should probably be more concerned for the sharks. and shark fin soup is really popular in parts of asia. if a fisherman caught a shark and sold the fins, he would get more than ten times the amount of money as he would if he sold the meat. this leads to a disgusting habit called "finning" in which fisheman catch sharks, cut off the fins and throw the body back in the ocean. but one plate of shark fin soup at a restauran can cost up to $100. which is patheitc because the soup is virtually tasteless, the chefs have to add vegetables and seasoning to get any thing out of it. and the mercury level in shark fins is 6 times higher than it should be allowed. its more dangerous to eat a shark than to be in the water with one.

Answer 2

Not intentionally. No shark hunts people for food. In the movie you saw, "Open Water", I believe one of the characters had a bad cut from a scuba injury. In that part of the world, that is a very bad thing. White Tip, Black Tip, and Reef Sharks will flock to the smell of blood in the water. They react to the blood and the smell. Once they take a bite they usually let go because we taste bad. I believe in rare instances a feeding frenzy could occur where a human would be eaten alive, but most of time a human would die from the single bite and bleed to death. In World War II, the Indianapolis sank in Pacific Ocean. Over 1200 people went into the water and many had some type of injury or cut. Within hours the sharks showed up and took nearly half the sailors. Very sad.

Answer 3

Many sharks will eat humans if they have the chance. Typically once they attack a human, they realize that it is not their natural food,a nd out of caution will not continue the attack.
Researchers believe that the intial "shark attack" is actually a way that the shrk evaluates its prey.
Our fat content is not really high enough to satiate a shark, but the size of our bodies is enough to fill it up, so they say thta most of the time it is not energetically wise for the shark to eat us because the energy it takes to catch, kill, swallow and process our bodies is not worth the return on energy.

Answer 4

only certain shark species go into feeding frenzies - mostly reef sharks. most pelagic (open ocean) sharks tend to swim on their own and not in great numbers and going into a feeding frenzy would contradict their feeding pattern of take a bite to either investigate or wound it's prey. they leave their prey to hemmorage and weaken so they do not get injured while it's prey fights back.

Answer 5

sharks do bite people and do eat them when they have the opportunity. its easier to let prey bleed to death when you take a chunk than go for broke.

Answer 6

Sharks don't eat people. They are as afraid of humans as we are afriad of them. like bees- they only attack/stink you when you disturb them.
perhaps, sharks don't like chewing human. we're too bony XD

Answer 7

yes, it is shark week on the discovery channel. check it out.

Answer 8

sharks don't like human meat. they won't eat you. they will bite you, taste you but eventually spit you out. but of coarse by that time you would be dead.

Answer 9

They say only by mistaken identity.

Answer 10

did u go to school YES THEY EAT PEOPLE