Sharks Info, attacks and stats

There is a big panic around a potential shark attack frenzy in the south coast of Mexico.

This is the article we found today

“Tiburón!” a little boy cried out, jumping up and down in the sand with his finger outstretched toward the ocean. Everyone around followed the youngster’s panicky gaze out past the waves and into the Pacific, where they spotted not a shark’s fin but a buoy.

“Everybody’s seeing sharks these days,” said the security man at one of the giant resort hotels that has flown a black flag over its lifeguard tower in recent days, warning swimmers to beware.

Since the end of April, the beaches north of here have experienced three separate shark attacks, two of them fatal, a rarity along this coastline. Needless to say, there are some jitters these days about whether the shark or sharks responsible might strike again.

An Ixtapa lifeguard, sitting atop a tower, admitted that every shout or scream he hears these days causes his heart to race. There is a fair amount of shrieking that occurs at every beach, whether caused by a hard-fought point in beach volleyball, a wave splashing the face of a child or maybe someone stepping down too hard on a sharp-edged shell. Now, though, any raised voice has him thinking: someone else has been bitten.

The first victim, Adrian Ruiz, 24, of San Francisco, arrived at a hotel on the beach in Troncones in the early evening of April 28 and immediately headed for the waves. Not too long afterward people on shore saw blood in the water.

“I ran to the water and grabbed him,” said Osmán Altamirano, 26, who works at a beachfront hotel. “Half his leg was gone. He was shaking. We put him in the back of a pickup but didn’t get him to the hospital in time.”