Historical reference record — not independently verified
1899 Port Said shark incidents
What happened
Multiple historical incidents share this year and location URL. Each supplied record is shown separately.
What is known
- Recorded classification: Multi-incident location/year archive
What remains uncertain
- Current GSAF-derived indexing shows three same-day Port Said records; date normalization differs by one day across mirrors.
- Historical source match supplied with the recovery material; not independently verified.
Fact panel
- Date
- Multiple dates — see individual records
- Date precision
- Year
- Location
- 1899 Port Said shark incidents, Mediterranean Sea, EGYPT
- Country
- EGYPT
- Activity
- Unknown
- Incident classification
- Multi-incident location/year archive
- Area / state
- Mediterranean Sea
- Outcome
- Unknown
- Species
- Unknown
- Species confidence
- Reported
- Coordinate precision
- Region
Individual historical records
This historical URL contains multiple incidents at the recorded locality. Each record is retained separately.
Current GSAF-derived indexing shows three same-day Port Said records; date normalization differs by one day across mirrors.
Arab boy — 1899-08-07/08
- date
- 1899-08-07/08
- person
- Arab boy
- age
- 19
- sex
- M
- activity
- Bathing
- outcome
- Non-fatal
- injury
- Forearm/wrist/hand bitten; recorded around 09:30.
Arab boy — 1899-08-07/08
- date
- 1899-08-07/08
- person
- Arab boy
- age
- 9
- sex
- M
- activity
- Floating on back
- outcome
- Non-fatal
- injury
- Back muscles reportedly torn away; recorded around 11:30.
Arab boy — 1899-08-07/08
- date
- 1899-08-07/08
- person
- Arab boy
- age
- 13
- sex
- M
- activity
- Bathing
- outcome
- Non-fatal
- injury
- Left leg bitten; recorded around 08:30.
Incident location
1899 Port Said shark incidents, Mediterranean Sea, EGYPT
Approximate area: Mediterranean Sea
The marker represents the named area, not the exact incident site.
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Location precision: Approximate area
Representative map position for Mediterranean Sea from Natural Earth. This marks the general area, not the exact incident site. This is historical location context, not live shark tracking or a measure of risk.
Sources and verification
- Shark Data Lab Port Said location archive (GSAF-derived) — www.sharkdatalab.comSupports: Historical incident fields; supplied source match, not independent verification
Shark incident records can change as investigations develop. This page shows the current verification status and was last restored from supplied historical reference material on 2026-09-25.
Historical facts retain the provenance and uncertainty of the cited references. Source timestamps record when the supplied material was imported, not an independent source retrieval or verification.
Supplementary content updated: 2026-09-24. This does not change the original verification status or review date.