2 You’re
more likely to die from heart disease, car accidents, drowning and even fireworks than from a shark bite Statistically, you have about a one in 3,748,067 chance of dying in a shark attack. To put that into perspective, you’re at a much higher risk of dying of heart disease (a one in five chance), a car accident (a one in 84 chance), drowning at the beach (a one in 1134 chance), or even fireworks (one in 340,733).