Non-fatal Swimming Attack

1929 Sydney Harbor, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1929

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Sydney Harbor, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

🌍 AUSTRALIA

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Other

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: Unknown

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Other

🩹 Injury Details

Later found to be fiction, never happened

🦈 Species Information

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Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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