Read This Before Swimming in the Ocean This Summer

All of your shark attack questions answered.

Shark attacks are rare, but they do happen. Recently, two women were attacked in the Bahamas after jumping off a boat, a man out for his daily morning swim was attacked in Australia , and a woman wading in shallow water was attacked in Turks and Caicos .

Nevertheless, according to Ian Campbell , PADI AWARE Associate Director for Policy and Partnerships, the odds of being killed by a shark are minuscule. Specifically, he says only 1 in 3,748,067 people will be attacked by a shark.

To put those odds in perspective, “a person is far more likely to be injured or killed driving to the beach than they are from a shark attack at the beach,” explains Robert J. Latour , a professor at the Batten School of Coastal and Marine Sciences, Virgini