Headlines have dubbed Florida the world's most likely place to be bitten by a shark. They're right, but shark bites are exceedingly rare -- a fact scientists in the US state wish more people knew, especially amid declining shark populations desperately in need of conservation.
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00:00 [SPEAKING SPANISH]
00:15 So we have a lot of people in the water and a lot of sharks
00:18 in the water.
00:19 The sharks are targeting the fishes
00:21 that they normally feed on.
00:22 But once in a while, people get in the way
00:25 and the sharks make a mistake and they bite the people.
00:27 [WATER BUBBLING]
00:30 And actually, a lot of people have probably been in the water.
00:45 You've probably been in the water with a shark
00:46 and just didn't know it.
00:48 They don't really want anything to do with us.
00:51 [WATER BUBBLING]
00:55 [BLANK_AUDIO]