This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A 3-to-4-foot-long shark bit a man attempting to swim the 20-plus miles from Santa Catalina Island to San Pedro ...

In the early hours of Tuesday morning, under a blanket of darkness, a man was attacked by a suspected great white shark off the coast of Catalina. The unidentified long-distance swimmer, reportedly a ...

A British marathon swimmer has survived a double shark attack whilst swimming off the coast of Los Angeles. Christopher Murray, 50, was three hours into his 20-mile swim across the Catalina Channel on ...

A marine biologist with decades of experience working in the field with sharks was attacked, last Saturday, during an expedition off the coast of Costa Rica. Dr. Mauricio Hoyos, 48, who hails from ...

A Mexican marine biologist was seriously injured after he was attacked by a shark while working off Costa Rica's Pacific coast and transferred to a hospital in the country's capital on Monday, ...

If you’ve ever seen the movie Jaws, you may have asked yourself, “How would I react to a shark attack?” For one Virginia Tech cadet, that hypothetical became a reality. “Everyone was in panic getting ...

A surfer has been attacked by a shark at a popular tourist destination in South Australia. The man, aged in his 50s, was bitten twice on the leg at D’Estrees Bay in an area known as The Sewer at ...

Mauricio Hoyos sustained serious injuries to his head, face and arms in the "extremely rare" incident Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working in ...

Fifty years ago, Stephen Spielberg’s Jaws hit theaters. Often called the first-ever Hollywood blockbuster, the film spawned an entire sub-genre of shark-inspired creature features and kicked shark ...

Scientists from Australia are touting the results of bite-resistant wetsuit materials to reduce deaths from shark attacks. Researchers from Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, tested ...

The man was swimming between Catalina Island and San Pedro in the early hours of Tuesday, Sept 30 Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023 and covers ...