“The adult females live right next to the areas that people are using heavily for ocean recreation.”
of shark incidents, with twice as many shark encounters as Oahu, according to the Hawaii State Department of Land and Natural Resources. From 1995 to 2022, Maui had 62 incidents, while Oahu, the most populated island, had 32.after a shark attack that took place off Kihei, South Maui. The 60-year-old visitor from Washington was snorkeling with her husband when a shark appeared. Witnesses onshore said there was a red cloud in the water. The account was later classified as a fatal shark attack.
Maui Nui, the collection of islands of Maui, Molokai, Kahoolawe and Lanai, sits on an expansive shelf that provides an ideal environment for the sharks. The environment seemingly satisfies the sharks so much that most of the tracked sharks that live off Maui stay in the area, while some sharks from Oahu tend to go to Maui during the winter.
“It may be that the whales are seasonally important to the tiger sharks there,” says Meyer. “We suspect that the placenta falls are being consumed by sharks, and if there’s a sick calf or still born, again, there’s a potential windfall for tiger sharks.”
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