Although sharks can be dangerous to humans they have a much worse rep than they disserve. Images of sharks depicted in movies, the one I'm thinking of particularly is Jaws portray sharks to be vicious man eating animals roaming the oceans shores in search to chomp human beings. The actual reality is that shark attacks are not quite as frequent as Hollywood would like us to believe. According to statistics released by shark attack file there are about fifty to seventy-five shark attacks each year worldwide, resulting in five to ten deaths.
More people actually die from choking on their own dinner.
Considering the amount of people that go out into the ocean on a daily basis, surfers, snorklers etc. Documentaries with names such as Teeth of Death which display Great Whites artificially whipped into a feeding frenzy for the camera have definitely not helped the shark's public image any. But the truth of the matter is that sharks should fear humans way more than we should fear them. Not much is known about sharks. In fact so little is known that we don't even know if the most infamous of the bunch, the great white, is endangered.