Fatal Boating Attack

1916 50 miles off Bahamas, BAHAMAS

📋 Table of Contents

📊 Attack Details
🦈 Species Information
🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact
🔗 Related Attacks

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1916

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

50 miles off Bahamas, BAHAMAS

🌍 BAHAMAS

🏊 Activity

Boating

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: Unknown

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Sea Disaster

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL. When the survivors were rescued next day they were clubbing sharks with oars. "Sharks were so thick that it was difficult to row"

🦈 Species Information

Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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