Fatal Swimming Attack

1922 Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland Parish, JAMAICA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1922

⏰ 10h00

📍 Location

Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland Parish, JAMAICA

🌍 JAMAICA

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 19

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL, arm severed, thigh severely bitten

🦈 Species Information

Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

📹 Learn More About Sharks

🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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Most shark attacks occur in shallow water close to shore.

Sharks have been around longer than trees.

Sharks can only live in salt water.

Sharks are colorblind.

Baby sharks are called pups.