Shark Incidents

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Fatal Swimming Attack

1905 Back Beach, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, SOUTH AFRICA

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📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1905

⏰ 16h30

📍 Location

Back Beach, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, SOUTH AFRICA

🌍 SOUTH AFRICA

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 26

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL, thigh bitten, femoral artery severed

🦈 Species Information

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Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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