Shark Incidents

A comprehensive collection of shark attack incidents worldwide.

Fatal Attack

1888 Off Sable Island, Nova Scotia, CANADA

📋 Table of Contents

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1888

⏰ Before daybreak

📍 Location

Off Sable Island, Nova Scotia, CANADA

🌍 CANADA

🏊 Activity

Other

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: Unknown

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Sea Disaster

🩹 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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