Fatal Great White Shark Attack

1937 Bar Beach, Newcastle, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1937

⏰ 15h20

📍 Location

Bar Beach, Newcastle, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

🌍 AUSTRALIA

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 32

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL, buttocks, ankle & right elbow bitten

🦈 Species Information

Great White Shark

This species has been involved in 744 documented attacks in our database.

📹 Learn More About Great White Sharks

🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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Baby sharks are called pups.

All sharks are dangerous to humans.

Sharks can detect electrical fields.

Sharks don't get cancer.

Great white sharks are the largest sharks.