Attaques et morsures de requins en Polynésie française

We report several shark attacks and bites which occurred in French Polynesia. This kind of accident seems to be more common in this country than in other French Indo-Pacific islands. In most of the cases we recorded, injuries were not major, and no death occured. Sharks involved in these accidents were small or medium-sized fisheaters. Fish blood or flesh close to the victim while performing scuba diving with shark feeding or spearfishing appears to have worked as a stimulus on sharks, and according to our data should be considered as a major factor of such accidents.