The Seychelles Hospitality & Tourism Association (SHTA) of which Nature Seychelles is a member, is concerned about the effects of climate change on tourism. Citing the recent shark attacks in Seychelles and elsewhere in South Africa, Russia, and Australia and speculation that the rising effects of climate change are to blame, the SHTA says that whatever the cause, the abnormal incidents have given us all cause for concern.

A fragment of a shark tooth extracted by surgeons from  shark attack victim Ian Redmond is most  probably  from a Great White (Carcharodon carcharias). This is the opinion of South African scientists from the Kwa Zulu Natal Sharks Board  whose  assistance has been sought  by Seychelles authorities.

“By the pricking of my thumb, something wicked this way comes”, said a witch in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. And it has come to us. Cruising our coastal waters with impunity. A Thing from our darkest nightmares….The Beast.

Shark attacks in Seychelles are so rare that even older fishers cannot recount "shark bites man" stories. So, the  first  record in over 40  years of a fatal shark attack has shocked the nation.