Shark week 2022: All attacks in US this year

Shark Week is returning for its 34th year with more than 20 hours of new original programming. According to Discovery, the summer event will feature “bigger sharks, bigger breaches, and even bigger findings from global teams of dedicated scientists and researchers in the field.”

This year, Shark Week will take viewers to new locations from the Exuma Islands in the Bahamas to Papua New Guinea. It will also spotlight innovative shark technology.

Discovery shared that “fans can expect 25 adrenaline-inducing original episodes that deliver never-seen footage of walking sharks, awe-inspiring breaches and more shocking predations captured on-camera by dedicated science and research field teams.”

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Stranger Things’ Noah Schnapp and Tracy Morgan are among Shark Week 2022’s celebrity guests.

There have been 22 shark attack bite in the US in 2022 (13 Florida, 0 Hawaii, 2 California,3 New York, 2 South Carolina). There were no provoked or fatal attacks.

Shark attacks on humans are extremely rare.

Zoologist, broadcaster, writer and BBC Wildlife columnist Mark Carwardine spoke out about what people should do in the unlikely event of sharing the water with a shark.

“Millions of people paddle, swim, snorkel, dive and surf in the sea every day but, in a typical year, fewer than 100 are bumped, nipped or bitten by sharks. In contrast, 100 to 150 million sharks are killed each year by people,” Carwardine said.

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“It is thought that three species account for more than half of all attacks: the great white, tiger and bull sharks. The vast majority of species have never been implicated in any attack. While a few large sharks will eat people given the chance, and many species bite in self-defence, most attacks are cases of mistaken identity. The shark bites once, typically in poor visibility, realises its error and swims away.”