Fatal Swimming Attack

1952 Between Ala Moana Channel & Kewalo Basin, O'ahu, Hawaii, USA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1952

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Between Ala Moana Channel & Kewalo Basin, O'ahu, Hawaii, USA

🌍 USA

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: Unknown

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL, disappeared while swimming, shark bite found on right side of body

🦈 Species Information

Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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Great white sharks are the largest sharks.

Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.

Sharks can detect electrical fields.

Sharks can smell a drop of blood from miles away.

Most shark attacks occur in shallow water close to shore.