Shark Incidents

A comprehensive collection of shark attack incidents worldwide.

Non-fatal Attack

1949 Miramar Beach, Tampico, Tamaulipas, MEXICO

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📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1949

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Miramar Beach, Tampico, Tamaulipas, MEXICO

🌍 MEXICO

🏊 Activity

Other

⚕️ Outcome

Other

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: Unknown

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

U.S. destroyer John W. Weeks, 6 miles offshore, demonstrating guns & bombs for Mexican officials was thought to have driven the shark into the shallows where it bit the bather before other bathers drove it away with sticks & clubs.

🦈 Species Information

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Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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