Fatal Swimming Attack

1944 North Beach, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, SOUTH AFRICA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1944

⏰ 17h50

📍 Location

North Beach, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, SOUTH AFRICA

🌍 SOUTH AFRICA

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 26

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL, leg bitten knee to ankle & posterior tibial artery severed; died of toxemia 2 days later

🦈 Species Information

Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

📹 Learn More About Sharks

🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

Test your shark knowledge! Click "Reveal Answer" to see if each statement is a myth or fact, then learn the science behind it.

Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.

Sharks sleep like humans do.

Sharks can only live in salt water.

Most shark attacks occur in shallow water close to shore.

Sharks don't get cancer.