As every week brings more reports of shark bites off Florida and Texas beaches, you can't help wondering what you would do if you were attacked by a shark. Flail? Scream? Swim away? Although avoidance ...

AVON, N.C. -- Not many kids can say their dad punched a shark for them, but 8-year-old Jack Thornton can. His dad, 47-year-old Patrick Thornton, fought off a shark while they were swimming at a North ...

While Florida is known for shark bites, incidents are about average for the year and declined nationally in 2024. Shark bites are extremely rare and most are cases of mistaken identity in ...

"Think of somebody you really don't like and beat the poo out of that shark," she said, explaining what she'd do if she were attacked in the ocean. Joey Nolfi is a senior writer at Entertainment ...

The first shark bit him in the knee. The second shark bit him in the shoulder. But somehow, Marlin Deere Wakeman was able to pull himself out of the water and into a boat. And two weeks later, the ...

Feb. 18 (UPI) --A TikTok user took to the video sharing site to recount the story of how she "won" a confrontation with a lemon shark that had latched onto her foot by punching it repeatedly in the ...

A Long Island surfer fought off a shark that chomped down on his leg by “slapping” it and “paddling like hell” to shore, he said Thursday. Shawn Donnelly, 41, of Mastic Beach — one of five people ...

um So I was in the water scalloping and the next thing I knew *** shark just come up at me and started attacking me and I didn't really know exactly what to do. But I knew that with sharks you're ...

Let’s just get this out of the way now: shark attacks are exceedingly rare. You’re far more likely to be struck by lightning (the odds of that are 1 in 500,000, versus 1 in 3.7 million for being ...

It reportedly wasn’t even a very good punch. A California surfer managed to fend off a great white attack this weekend by socking the shark in the face. Resorting to fisticuffs worked surprisingly ...

(Reuters) – Australia’s Mick Fanning, a triple world champion who grabbed international headlines by escaping a shark attack by punching the animal, will make another return to professional surfing ...