Shark Incidents

A comprehensive collection of shark attack incidents worldwide.

Non-fatal Attack

1946 "Head of the Gulf", PERSIAN GULF

📋 Table of Contents

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1946

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

"Head of the Gulf", PERSIAN GULF

🌍 PERSIAN GULF

🏊 Activity

Other

⚕️ Outcome

Bite

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: Unknown

Gender: F

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

Abdomen bitten, but she survived. Most of the 40 others that survived the wreck, were taken by sharks

🦈 Species Information

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Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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