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Swimmers pictured far too close to sharks in the area where the man was killed. Photo: Science Direct\/\/Tal Meir<\/p>\n
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Back in April, a man was killed by a dusky shark<\/a> in Hadera, Israel. It was the first recorded fatality caused by a dusky shark since we began recording shark fatalities, and it confused a lot of people. Not only was it the first recorded dusky shark fatality ever, it was the first time a shark had killed a person in Israel since the country was founded in 1948. Now, researchers looking into what made the shark attack<\/a> think they know why: people have been feeding the sharks there for years, which encouraged a sort of \u00a0begging behavior.<\/p>\n \u201cArtificial feeding, when it is regulated and monitored by authorities, can have massive benefits for ecotourism and local economies as well as improve the perception of sharks in terms of people being able to see them and spend time in the water with them,\u201d said Kristian Parton, a marine biologist and shark scientist from the University of Exeter, in a release<\/a>. \u201cThere are lots of places around the world where there are provisioning sites that work well, but there are others where there\u2019s just no enforcement, no regulations \u2013 where people are able to get into the water with their own food.\u00a0Sadly, in Hadera it wasn\u2019t being done in the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n The victim was snorkeling at the time of the attack. It\u2019s well-known that sharks like to hang around there because of the warm water that\u2019s discharged by a nearby power plant, but until April, it was more of an attraction than a worry. It\u2019s theorized that the man\u2019s GoPro may have had something to do with the attack as well, since sharks are able to detect electromagnetic signals that are emitted by possible prey and electrical devices. When one shark bit at the camera and bit the man instead, it may have set off a feeding frenzy that caused other sharks in the area to move in.<\/p>\n The whole event was filmed from multiple angles and quickly made the rounds on social media. The victim was alone at the time, near the warm effluent water from the power station, some 500 feet from the shore.<\/p>\n \u201cThe video captures the individual moments before being bitten and drawn underwater by multiple sharks, while off-camera voices speaking in Hebrew can be heard stating that he is calling for help,\u201d a study on the attack explained<\/a>. \u201cSubmersion occurred within two minutes from the onset of the encounter, accompanied by visible thrashing movements and blood dispersal.\u201d<\/p>\n The next day, human remains were found by the Israeli Navy and police.<\/p>\n