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Shark Diving
Shark Diving
Shark Diving
Shark Diving
Shark Diving
Shark Diving
Shark Diving
Shark Diving
Shark Diving
Shark Diving
Shark Diving
Shark Diving
Shark Diving
Shark Diving
Shark Diving
The 2010 Sharm El Sheikh shark attacks were a series of attacks by sharks on swimmers off the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. On 1 December 2010, three Russians and one Ukrainian were seriously injured within minutes of each other, and on 5 December 2010 a German woman was killed, when they were attacked while wading or snorkeling near the shoreline. The attacks were described as unprecedented by shark experts. In response to the attacks, beaches in the popular tourist resort were closed for over a week, dozens of sharks were caught and killed, and the local government issued new rules banning shark feeding and restricting swimming. A variety of theories were put forward to explain the attacks. By late December 2010, the most plausible theory to emerge was that the dumping of sheep carcasses in the Red Sea by a livestock transport during the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha had attracted the sharks to the shore. Other theories focused on overfishing in the Red Sea or on the illegal or inadvertent feeding of sharks or smaller fish close to the shore, which produced scents that attracted more sharks.
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