"They're not right offshore of the beaches, but they can come in pretty close to shore," fisheries biologist Jon Vander Werff told the Hartford Courant.
"Although Vander Werff noted that 'none of them are aggressive,' behavior by swimmers can still make waves. 'I would say if they were provoked, like, for example, you're swimming and you kick one, they might come around [for] an exploratory bite,'" the article highlighted.
"The odds of getting bitten are 264 million to one. 'And there's so few bites that what makes them so bad of course is the publicity,'" John Langlois, owner of Enfield Scuba and Water Sports, shared.
"Conditions in the Sound are becoming more ideal for such sharks. 'The water quality is there for them and the ecosystem has been rebounding from years' past, where there hasn't been a lot of sharks,'" Vander Werff commented.
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