is it a coincidence or does it seem that the majority of the attacks occur on or near the femoral?
The kicking of a swimmer draws sharks (or so I’ve heard), and the leg’s a good grabbing point, so that’s the focal point of many shark attacks. And the femoral artery is the biggest artery in the legs, so it’s a good bet that a shark will sever it, given a vicious enough attack.
Funguy, what exactly do you mean by it being some kind of coincidence? What kind of coincidence are you talking about that would involve a shark attack and the femoral artery?
The femoral artery is on the inside of the thigh and continues down. when a shark attacks it is USUALLY from below. and there is usually a high percentage of tissue loss.
But a do not see a coincidence. I think you may be asking why is there a high ** PROBABILITY ** that the femoral artery is always hit. I am no expert but I would say that has to do with the speed at which the shark was traveling , the angle the shark took to bite you and of course the, the size of the shark…
damn I should have previewed. Sorry about the spelling and other assorted errors, but I’m posting and working here 
Not that funguy can’t speak on his own behalf, but I think he meant, “Is this a coincidence, or do the sharks deliberately go for the femoral artery?”
The sharks don’t know jack about human anatomy, they normally don’t repeatedly attack a person once they figured out what they’re dealing with. Legs just happen to be handy things to grab and when you have a mouth that big you can hardly miss.
Bullfighters are very often gored right there too…
“is it a coincidence or does it seem that the majority of the attacks occur on or near the femoral?”
Are the majority of attack on or near the femoral artery? I don’t think so. I think most are lower on the leg.
I can tell you one thing though, a person has a much better chance of surviving a severe bite to a lower leg or arm or even loss of a lower leg or arm than they do of surviving a puncture of a femoral artery. The femoral artery is big and high pressure and you can bleed out through it in minutes. The blood doesn’t even have to leave your body; it can just flow through a puncture into the tissues of your leg until you die. In addition, it can be harder to stop a leak in a femoral artery than in an artery lower in the leg or in the arm because the femoral artery is deep and is also hard to get a tourniquet around.
So I doubt that shark bites that injure femoral arteries are a large percentage of all shark bites BUT they may well be a large percentage of all FATAL shark bites.