Fatal Swimming Attack

1967 Cheviot Beach, Portsea, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, AUSTRALIA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1967

⏰ A.M.

📍 Location

Cheviot Beach, Portsea, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, AUSTRALIA

🌍 AUSTRALIA

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 59

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL, presumed taken by a shark, body not recovered

🦈 Species Information

Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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