Fatal Swimming Attack

1925 Newcastle Beach, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1925

⏰ 15h15

📍 Location

Newcastle Beach, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

🌍 AUSTRALIA

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 16

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL, right forearm severed, lacerations from buttocks to heel L

🦈 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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Sharks can only live in salt water.

Most shark attacks occur in shallow water close to shore.

Sharks are colorblind.

All sharks are dangerous to humans.

Sharks have been around longer than trees.