Fatal Swimming Attack

1923 Bellambi Reef, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1923

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Bellambi Reef, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

🌍 AUSTRALIA

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: Unknown

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Watercraft

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL, taken by shark. Two other men drowned, only 1 man survived

🦈 Species Information

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Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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