Keith Cowley:
I always tell folks that come into the museum that ask me this question that anything I tell you to prepare yourself for an interaction with a shark, you’re going to forget immediately when it happens.
So there’s a lot of folks out there trying to give some great advice about interacting with sharks. There’s a lot of different conditions that can occur when sharks might be in our proximity. And, unfortunately, there’s no foolproof answer to that question.
I think what’s more important to take away from that is that the odds are extremely slim. I mean, I think, be aware of your surroundings. There’s a lot of communities that are doing some great public outreach to help people become more educated in the situation that they’re putting themselves in.
For example, in Cape Cod, in the waters off Cape Cod, where sharks, great white sharks, in particular, are cruising in seven to 10 feet of water all day long, there are some scenarios where you don’t really need to put yourself at risk. But, in most oceans in the United States, this is not an issue that you have to be concerned with.
