Shark Incidents

A comprehensive collection of shark attack incidents worldwide.

Non-fatal Attack

1945 Mouth of Rio Dudio, 50 miles west of the city of Colon, Colon Province, PANAMA

📋 Table of Contents

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1945

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Mouth of Rio Dudio, 50 miles west of the city of Colon, Colon Province, PANAMA

🌍 PANAMA

🏊 Activity

Other

⚕️ Outcome

Bite

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 8 or 10

Gender: F

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

Foot bitten

🦈 Species Information

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Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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