Shark attacks happen each year. Though the majority of incidents occur due to mistaken identity, the attacks are a reminder ...

A scuba diver’s chilling close encounter with a great white shark reveals how calm behavior can prevent danger.

One U.S. state accounted for 17% of all unprovoked bites globally last year Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined as a member of the PEOPLE App team in 2025. Her work has ...

A peaceful day kayaking in Florida turned into a close encounter with a massive bull shark. The shocking moment was caught on ...

A great white shark named Nori, a 9-foot, 432-pound man-eating predator was spotted off the coast of New Jersey on May 4.

A Monterey County woman’s death in a shark attack off Pacific Grove in late December marked the 17th shark fatality off California’s coast since 1950. State data shows at least 235 shark attacks have ...

Those who spend much time on the Carolina beaches know that many shark species, and even whales, are frequent visitors during the summer. And, though it's extremely rare, those sharks have been known ...

Eight months after Mercury Psillakis was killed in a shark attack at Long Reef on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, his legacy lives ...

Last Friday, a dive boat rescued two kids in the channel directly off Ala Moana Bowls on Oahu’s South Shore. The kids had been spearfishing, and had tangled with a tiger shark later estimated by the ...