Shark Incidents

A comprehensive collection of shark attack incidents worldwide.

Fatal Swimming Attack

1847 Off the harbor wall at Mandrakina, Corfu, GREECE

📋 Table of Contents

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1847

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Off the harbor wall at Mandrakina, Corfu, GREECE

🌍 GREECE

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 19

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL

🦈 Species Information

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Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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