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Too little to know. That is how we don't know. Maybe yes, maybe not.
Stockton University’s Marine Field Station in Port Republic is one of the locations included in the June 24 episode of “When Sharks Attack” on Nat Geo WILD, a sister network to the National Geographic Channel. Stockton graduate and adjunct instructor Stephen Nagiewicz will discuss the effects of sonar and methane on sharks during the episode, which airs at 10 p.m. ET.
This spring, Nagiewicz, of Brick Township, N.J., “conducted scientific demonstrations to explain how sonar and methane gas seeps could affect sharks for a team of filmmakers who visited the field station,” said Susan Allen, who handles news and media relations for the college.
Nagiewicz, who chairs the Shark Research Institute’s Board of Trustees in Princeton, is a veteran diver, and is accustomed to sonar marine technology as a tool to locate wrecks.
The third season of “When Sharks Attack” premiered June 10 on Nat Geo WILD, which primarily airs programming about wildlife and natural history. As Allen noted, “The show investigates the recent rise in shark attacks to explore what is affecting some of nature’s most feared fish.”
Stockton’s Marine Field Station is located on an eight-acre waterfront site in the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, and provides the facilities, research vessels, sampling equipment and staff to afford Stockton students the opportunity for hands-on learning experiences in a marine environment. —J.K.-H.
This article does a fairly good job of covering the relevant information.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/09/shark-attacks-record-high-2015-global-tally
The evidence suggests as global climate change alters ocean temperatures and currents, some shark attacks are occuring more frequently in places that rarely experience them (e.g. one attack in 2015 occured at a beach off Long Island, NY). However, there is no logical reason climate change would drive sharks to attack more humans. Instead, it appears the growing human population spends more man-hours in the ocean, thus exposing it to more shark attacks than in past years.
As for KNOWING whether the hypothesis is true, there is no way to know with certainty. Any phenomenon as complex as shark attacks on humans has too many factors influencing it to isolate just one causal relationship.
they could be related but i dont think we can ever know for sure
Thank you for your reply Sharonna.
Mahalo for your helpful answer OS and the link! :)
Thank you for your reply pearl! :)
