This whale shark escaped the nets. 26 did not.

Of the over 500 species of sharks, only a handful have been linked to any incidents with humans – that is less than 5% of all shark species.

 Given the largest shark, the whale shark, is a plankton eater, and the Port Jackson shark has teeth as crushing plates for eating invertebrates, it is wrong to generalize about all sharks. Although more than 210 species of sharks occur in Southern African waters and over 60 are unique to these waters including species like cat sharks, hound sharks, saw sharks, dogfish and chimaeras, the vast majority never come into contact with humans. Only three South African shark species have been confirmed in shark attacks on humans - tiger shark, bull shark, great white shark.  The vast majority of sharks are harmless to humans.