A former lifeguard has been left with a "spaghetti wrist" after being attacked by a shark while snorkelling in waist-deep ...

By the time I looked down, it was gone, and all I saw was red, and I knew I was bitten by a shark,” Bender told NewsNation.

A 40-year-old surfer describes a shark attack at New Smyrna Beach in Florida as feeling "like a bear trap" and "electricity." ...

Luis Omar Alvarez, 31, has been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention at the Collier County Jail since his June 15 ...

A large shark attacked a pelican in the Florida surf recently, creating a spectacle but not generating the type of response you might except among waders. The accompanying footage, captured by Lisa ...

In Florida, where the majority of US shark attacks happen, people were nearly 21 times more likely to die in a tornado (125 deaths) than a shark bite (six deaths) between 1985 and 2010.

The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is widely known as a shark story—but the truth is much more horrifying.

Before the fictional story of a killer shark terrorizing a sleepy beach town, there was the very real summer of 1916 at the ...

Luis Alvarez, the hero who saved a little girl from a shark attack in Boca Grande, now finds himself facing deportation. The ...

Luis Alvarez was arrested on June 14, days after he helped Leah Lendel and her family during a shark attack in Boca Grande.

Even with shark attacks being a relatively low occurrence, they are always a possibility, experts say. But there are some preemptive measures beach-goers can take to lessen the risk.