Sharks killed four people and bit 58 others around the world in 2006, a comparatively dull year for dangerous encounters between the two species, scientists said in their annual shark attack census Tuesday.
"We love dull years because it means there are fewer serious attacks and fewer victims," said George Burgess, director of the International Shark Attack File at the University of Florida.
The number of shark attacks worldwide increased to 62 in 2006 from 61 the previous year but the number of those proving deadly was unchanged at four. That was far below the 79 attacks, 11 of them fatal, in 2000, the researchers said.
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