Shark Incidents

A comprehensive collection of shark attack incidents worldwide.

Fatal Blue Shark Attack

1955 Usimado-no-Seto, Okayama Prefecture, JAPAN

📋 Table of Contents

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1955

⏰ 13h00

📍 Location

Usimado-no-Seto, Okayama Prefecture, JAPAN

🌍 JAPAN

🏊 Activity

Unknown

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 22

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL

🦈 Species Information

Blue Shark

This species has been involved in 58 documented attacks in our database.

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