An Unprovoked Attack by a Blue Shark Prionace glauca (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhinidae) on a Spear Fisherman in Terceira Island, Azores, Northeast Atlantic

Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Science Ltd. The blue shark, Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758), is a large predatory oceanic-epipelagic species with worldwide distribution that is usually harmless to humans. However, its inquisitive behavior when facing divers in open waters and a moderately powerful set o...

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Published in:Wilderness & Environmental Medicine
Main Authors: Barreiros, João P., Gadig, Otto B. F., Haddad Jr., Vidal
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014
Subjects:
Human-Wildlife Conflicts
Shark Attack Azores
Wildlife Medicine
Northeast Atlantic
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/3136
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2014.03.014
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Summary:Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Science Ltd. The blue shark, Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758), is a large predatory oceanic-epipelagic species with worldwide distribution that is usually harmless to humans. However, its inquisitive behavior when facing divers in open waters and a moderately powerful set of jaws and teeth can inflict severe injuries, reasons for this shark to be regarded with caution in some shark-human interaction scenarios. There are at least 13 recorded unprovoked attacks imputed to this species to date (eg, http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/statistics/species3.htm). […].

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