Shark Incidents

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Non-fatal Fishing Attack

1955 Cojimar, Havana Province, CUBA

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📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1955

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Cojimar, Havana Province, CUBA

🌍 CUBA

🏊 Activity

Fishing

⚕️ Outcome

Other

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: Unknown

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Provoked

🩹 Injury Details

Forearm slashed wrist to elbow by hooked shark he was trying to club to death PROVOKED INCIDENT

🦈 Species Information

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Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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