🦈 Shark Attacks - New Caledonia

Within a very short period (a few weeks) of time we had to face dramatic shark attacks in New Caledonia:

• 📰 "La Calédonie est un hot spot mondial du risque requin", selon le chercheur François Taglioni
• 📰 Nouméa : un foileur échappe à une attaque de requin
• 📺 Une femme attaquée par un #requin devant la plage du Château Royal de Nouméa
• 📺 NOUVELLE CALÉDONIE : Dossier #requin - 30/01/2023

In the mean time, I discovered that at the Réunion Island (who faced similar problems) had a dedicated website :

Finally, I discovered an amazingly detailed article A Spatial and Environmental Analysis of Shark Attacks on Reunion Island (1980-2017), from the University of La Réunion

That were the conditions for me to try to create a maintain some highly contextual datas, from 1886. up to today.

ℹ️ About the dataset

This dataset is an effort of mixing Global Shark Attack - World

This dataset is an effort for putting all publicly available data about shark attacks in New-Caledonia :

1. Within a very single place,
2. Enhanced with keys coming from data.gouv.nc for city codes
3. Enhanced with related datas like moon phasis, season,...
4. Enhanced with protection status of each shark species we have in New-Caledonia
5. Season, and other metadatas

Hopefully this effort will be useful.

📑 Related resources

• Dans les eaux protégées du Pacifique, les requins atteignent des tailles démesurées
• Attaques de requins en Nouvelle-Calédonie de 1958 à 2020 : revue de cas
• Nouméa : un foileur échappe à une attaque de requin
• Attaque de requin à Nouméa : les baigneurs de retour… mais prudents
• Confirmed Unprovoked Shark Attacks (1580-Present)