Stats

It has become a trite, obligatory comment from naturalists and others with a stake in the les océans [Jacques Cousteau accent goes here], that one is more likely to be killed by [insert creature, like the overly used bees analogy, or an event, like the commonly referenced auto accident] than be attacked by a shark. This is unintentionally misleading because people are much more exposed to bees, so it follows that bee stings are a higher occurrence, plus vehicles are an intrinsic part of travel - with many (most?) people using motorized vehicles - many on a regular basis - so that would naturally be a higher occurrence than aquatic attacks as well. After all, even if one statistically isolates a population that spends a lot of time in the water (e.g. surfers), even that base set would demonstrate a small percentage of the time actually in the water. The stats commonly referenced do not make this distinction, but in fact, use extremely broad survey sets (e.g. all peoples, or all Americans, etc.). That would logically yield a very low number of shark incidents. At any rate, the intention here is just to add some clarity: the more often you swim in the oceans (especially in deeper waters), even though you are not on the regular menu, you are at a higher risk of becoming food - so, don't be too cavalier in such matters.