Turns Out Sharks Do Not Have A Taste For Humans

The University of Florida reports that only one person has been killed by a shark in 2007. Besides 1987 when there were zero fatalities, this sort of statistic has not been so low since 1985 when a single human death occurred from a shark attack.
And although 2007 and 1985 are low years, previous totals have not been as high as imagined. With four deaths in 2005 and 2006 and seven in 2004.
"It's quite spectacular that for the hundreds of millions of people worldwide spending hundreds of millions of hours in the water in activities that are often very provocative to sharks, such as surfing, there is only one incident resulting in a fatality," said George Burgess, director of the International Shark Attack File housed at University of Florida's Florida Museum of Natural History.