Seven shark attacks within three weeks in North Carolina causes alarm

The seventh shark attack in North Carolina has sent the alarm bells ringing. The victim was a 68-year-old man and he has been badly injured in the shark attack as reported in bbc.com dated 1 July 2015.
The individual was swimming in waist-deep water with his adult son on Ocracoke Island in the Outer Banks and suffered wounds to his ribcage, lower leg, hip and both hands as he tried to fight off the animal.

In the opinion of experts, the number of shark attacks in the US is on the rise. As per the local police, the victim was dragged under water by the shark which measured about 7ft (2.1m). Actually, the man was right in front of the lifeguard tower when the incident occurred.
He was flown to a nearby hospital for treatment.
As per statistics of the International Shark Attack File (ISAF), a program run by marine biologists at the Florida Museum of Natural History, there are records of 23 attacks in 2015 out of which one in Hawaii was fatal. There are usually about 30-40 shark attacks recorded in the US each year and most of them are not.
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