Maui County has recorded at least 75 unprovoked shark attacks since 1828, and eight people in Hawaii were attacked by sharks last year – one of them fatally, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History’s International Shark Attack File.

I mean, that’s extraordinary,” Giesea told the publication. Shark attacks are “extremely rare,” according to John Carlson of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “You have a better chance of getting in a car accident and being ...