Florida remains the world leader.... in shark attacks.

There were a record number of shark attacks around the world in 2015 – and Florida continues to hold the dubious distinction of shark attack capitol of the world.

The International Shark Attack File investigated 164 incidents of alleged shark-human interaction in 2015; they found that 98 of the incidents were unprovoked – that’s up from 72 the year before.

Out of those there were only 6 deaths world-wide.

The rest were "Provoked attacks" which happens when a diver grabs a shark, when someone gets bit feeding a shark, or they get bit while taking a shark off a hook or out of a net.

It also considered provoked when a shark bites a boat which happened 14 times in 2015.

The vast majority of sharks attacks happened in US waters.

There was a total of 59 unprovoked attacks in US waters last year, 30 of those happened in Florida.

Brevard County had the most incidents with 8, followed by 7 in Volusia County.

There were 4 attacks in Duval County and 2 each in Palm beach and St. Johns Counties.

Broward, Collier, Indian River, Martin, Miami-Dade, Nassau, and St. Lucie counties saw 1 shark attack each last year.

Additional U.S. attacks were recorded in North and South Carolina, Hawaii, California, Texas, Mississippi and New York.

Surfers make up about 49 percent of shark attack cases followed by swimmers and waders which make up 42 percent.

There were no attacks on SCUBA divers in 2015.  

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