Non-fatal Great White Shark Attack

1960 Horseshoe Bay, near Kempsey, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1960

⏰ Late afternoon

📍 Location

Horseshoe Bay, near Kempsey, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

🌍 AUSTRALIA

🏊 Activity

Surfing

⚕️ Outcome

Other

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 17

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

Right arm & side bruised

🦈 Species Information

Great White Shark

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

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🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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Great white sharks are the largest sharks.

You're more likely to be struck by lightning than attacked by a shark.

Sharks are colorblind.

Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.

Sharks don't get cancer.