Sign up to receive updates when articles like this are published. Sign up to receive alerts when articles like this are published. Opinion Sharks Don't Mean to Bite You. Many of my tours include a shark-feeding exercise. Human beings are not a part of sharks' normal diet.
Sharks normally avoid humans.
That is why accidents to divers are so few. The Florida attacks you mention occurred mostly along beaches, where sharks can easily mistake bathers' arms or legs for fish. Sharks produce slowly and produce few young. Many species are today on the endangered list. Even the great white shark in South Australia and South Africa is now a protected species.