Shark attacks become impossible to deal with by mid-late game

[someonefromcanada38]

I've played quite a bit of shipwrecked now and I'm really enjoying it despite it being early access. I personally think that the sharks as is are too strong later into the game. I just died on day 56, during a shark attack which came immediately after a volcano eruption(which is why I wasn't on land to fight the much easier ground hounds). The ash was covering the screen so it was difficult to see properly, but my boat was the armored boat and I had it in decent shape. The primary problems with shark attacks right now are that firstly they all come at once(they aren't staggered well), 4 sharks shot straight at me out of nowhere, and secondly they don't have a long enough attack cooldown, meaning if you get hit a single time by a single shark you be will guaranteed to sink when 5 are closing in on you. I don't have a problem with the very high shark movement speed, I think that is necessary to make them unique and intimidating to fight. As long as they attack less often there would be at least a chance to get away after being hit or to counter attack, however due to the fact that you can only swing once in the span of a sharks attack you end up being stun-locked very easily once committing to an attack, which isn't fun and causes frustration. What happened in this particular engagement is a single shark came first, after dodging his first attack I went to attack him, after my attack 4 more sharks came onto the screen, I began to retreat at which point the shark I attacked landed a blow on me, 10 consecutive attacks hit me without me being able to move out of range, the sharks simply kept hitting and stunning me over and over. I love Don't Starve, and the sharks are very strong and scary to fight early on, but they are manageable as long as you are careful or run if they start getting the better of you. They definitely need some work to become possible to fight later in the game though, as right now if they hit you its instant death.