Non-fatal Nurse Shark Attack

1949 Seaholme, Victoria, AUSTRALIA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1949

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Seaholme, Victoria, AUSTRALIA

🌍 AUSTRALIA

🏊 Activity

Other

⚕️ Outcome

No Injury

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 35

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

No injury, Shark landed on top of him, knocked him back down 3 times

🦈 Species Information

Nurse Shark

This species has been involved in 109 documented attacks in our database.

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🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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Sharks have been around longer than trees.

Baby sharks are called pups.

Sharks can only live in salt water.

Sharks are older than dinosaurs.

Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.