Sand Hole Collapse Fatalities Compared To
Shark Attack Fatalities in the U.S.: 1990-2006

Incident	Number of Fatalities
Sand Hole Collapse1	16
Shark Attack 2	11

Source of sand hole data: 1Dr. Bradley Maron, The New England Journal of Medicine (June 2007) Source of shark attack data: 2International Shark Attack File (August 2008)

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