Fatal Great White Shark Attack

1955 Sugarloaf Bay, Middle Harbor, Sydney, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1955

⏰ 14h35

📍 Location

Sugarloaf Bay, Middle Harbor, Sydney, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

🌍 AUSTRALIA

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 25

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL, legs bitten

🦈 Species Information

Great White Shark

This species has been involved in 744 documented attacks in our database.

📹 Learn More About Great White Sharks

🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

Test your shark knowledge! Click "Reveal Answer" to see if each statement is a myth or fact, then learn the science behind it.

Sharks are older than dinosaurs.

Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.

Sharks can only live in salt water.

Great white sharks are the largest sharks.

Sharks can smell a drop of blood from miles away.