Fatal Great White Shark Attack

1967 St. Kilda Beach, South Island, NEW ZEALAND

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1967

⏰ 19h45

📍 Location

St. Kilda Beach, South Island, NEW ZEALAND

🌍 NEW ZEALAND

🏊 Activity

Other

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 21

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL, seen taken by a shark

🦈 Species Information

Great White Shark

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

📹 Learn More About Great White Sharks

🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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Sharks can only live in salt water.

Great white sharks are the largest sharks.

Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.

Sharks don't get cancer.

Most shark attacks occur in shallow water close to shore.