Shark Incidents

A comprehensive collection of shark attack incidents worldwide.

Fatal Attack

1945 Off Cheribon, Northern Java, JAVA

📋 Table of Contents

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1945

⏰ Dusk

📍 Location

Off Cheribon, Northern Java, JAVA

🌍 JAVA

🏊 Activity

Other

⚕️ Outcome

Amputation

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: Unknown

Gender: Unknown

🏷️ Attack Type

Sea Disaster

🩹 Injury Details

Sharks attacked the swimmers. The sole survivor lost his arm & foot & died of his injuries shortly after being picked up by Javanese fishermen. The incident became known as the Cheribon Atrocity

🦈 Species Information

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Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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