Fatal Swimming Attack

1956 San Juan River, COSTA RICA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1956

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

San Juan River, COSTA RICA

🌍 COSTA RICA

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 33

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL, leg severed

🦈 Species Information

Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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