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Many people think sharks are dangerous.

They are never friendly in films like Jaws.

Florida's got lots of sharks.

Sharks bite 16 people a year in Florida.

This is about a quarter of all shark bites.

But around the world, sharks only bite 69 people a year.

And millions of people go to swim in Florida's seas every year.

Last year, 135 million visitors swam there.

The Florida Program for Shark Research is educating people.

There are lots of people and lots of sharks.

Sharks can easily eat people.

But they don't, says programme director Gavin Naylor.

Naylor thinks that shark bites are an accident.

The number of sharks is going down.

It's 70 percent lower than in 1970.

There's too much fishing.

Shark movies make people afraid.

People try to save dolphins and whales, but not sharks.

Sharks are actually friendly.

Jonathan Campbell takes people to swim with sharks.

This changes people's ideas.

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