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The great white occupies the top slot on the list of ten most dangerous sharks, with the tiger shark coming in a distant second. The remaining seven species on the 10 most dangerous sharks list, in order of their recorded number of unprovoked lethal and non-lethal attacks over the centuries are: 4. The requiem shark (Carcharhinus spp.*) 5. The sand tiger shark (Carcharias tauruss) 6. The blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus)
Are sharks really dangerous? After all, you're more likely to be killed by lightning or faulty wiring on your Christmas tree than by a shark [source: McCarthy]. Death by bee sting occurs far more often than death by shark [source: Burgess]. In the water, you're more apt to drown or be injured by your own surfboard than be hurt by a shark [source: Martin]. Researchers love to throw around statistics like these to redeem sharks.