the international shark attack file , which gathers statistics on interactions between the mammals and humans , the number of unprovoked shark attacks has grown at a steady pace since 1900 , with each decade having more attacks than the previous .
however , despite the worrying statistics , only a minority of sharks are any danger to humans , with great white , bull and tiger sharks accounting for the vast majority of attacks .
reunion has recorded seven fatal shark attacks in the past five years , more per capita than anywhere else in the world .