For Your ("Shark Attack") Eyes Only : what to do when encountering a shark in the water

Even though deaths following a shark "attack"/contact are very rare - around 10 per year worlwide - compared to, as some examples, deaths by homicide (500,000 as a mean value each year), deaths by wars, deaths by CoVid (Sars-cov 2 : more than 2 millions annually at this date, 60,000 in France), such deaths make the headlines in the newspapers or in the TV news everytime. This is the Jaws's syndrome.

However, some simple rules can avoid many accidents when you encounter a shark, or when you are practicing your favorite sport where they may be sharks swimming there, either for foraging, transiting/migrating, or simply teased by noise.

The following video clip, made by BRUT America (copyright), is fairly good, and everyone should have the rules introduces here in his or her mind before any sea activity (swimming, diving, spearfishing, surfing...). A pretty good advice video clip in fact. And, if you should have in mind only three rules, please remember the following ones :

1/ Stay vertical, 2/ Remain quiet, and 3/ Push out the shark slighly.

And, of course, avoid doing what I do : diving alone...