Sharktober is real in Hawaii — and it's down to the reproductive pattern of predatory tiger sharks, an analysis of 30 years ...

Scientists confirm ‘sharktober’ is real as decades of data reveal month when attacks spike - The pattern appears to be driven by tiger shark biology, not by more people being in the water, marine biol ...

A new study has confirmed a statistically "significant" spike in shark bite incidents in Hawaiian waters every October.

Peter Smith was on a golfing holiday in Tobago when a bull shark attacked him in shallow water, causing severe injuries to ...

"I start punching the shark. To be honest I don't know what I was trying to do, but I was hitting it," Peter says. "I can ...

A British man has told how he fought off a bull shark during a near-fatal attack in waters off Tobago in April 2024, in what ...

It has to do with one particular species of shark—and it’s probably not the one you think.

While the overall risk of a shark attack remains low, experts say warmer waters, various weather events, shifting prey and busier coastlines can increase the risk ...

Midwinter marks the annual return of humpback whales to Hawaiʻi, swimming down from Alaska to breed in the warmer waters. Tiger sharks start showing up in greater numbers soon thereafter from across ...

Tiger sharks are typically solitary wanderers, and it wasn’t clear to scientists how they came together to reproduce. But as HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol reports, groundbreaking research from the ...

For years, Hawaiʻi surfers and lifeguards have talked about “Sharktober,” a stretch of fall weeks when encounters with sharks ...