Historical reference record — not independently verified

Shark incident at Children's Bay Cay near Rollerville, Great Exuma Island, BAHAMAS — 1968-07-10

ReportedUnprovokedFatal

What happened

Historical record: Children's Bay Cay near Rollerville, Great Exuma Island, BAHAMAS. Recorded date: 1968-07-10. Classification: Unprovoked.

What is known

Recorded classification: Unprovoked

What remains uncertain

Historical source match supplied with the recovery material; not independently verified.

Fact panel

Date: 1968-07-10
Date precision: Exact
Location: Children's Bay Cay near Rollerville, Great Exuma Island, BAHAMAS
Country: BAHAMAS
Activity: Swimming to shore after a small boat struck submerged coral
Incident classification: Unprovoked
Area / state: Great Exuma Island
Person / vessel: Male
Sex: M
Injury / case note: Fatal; taken by shark
Outcome: Fatal
Species: Unknown
Species confidence: Unknown
Coordinate precision: Unknown

Incident location

Children's Bay Cay near Rollerville, Great Exuma Island, BAHAMAS

The recorded area has not yet been matched reliably to the map.

Record interpretation

Historical shark-incident data can contain uncertainty, later reclassification, transcription differences, and conflicting dates or species identifications. This page preserves the recovered classification and explicitly avoids inventing missing facts.

Source and editorial provenance

Source: Dedicated GSAF case record

Source URL: https://www.sharkattackdata.com/attack/bahamas/great_exuma_island/1968.07.10

Where the source does not record a victim, age, injury, time, or shark identification, that field remains Not recorded.

Sources and verification

Dedicated GSAF case record — www.sharkattackdata.com
Supports: Historical incident fields; supplied source match, not independent verification

Shark incident records can change as investigations develop. This page shows the current verification status and was last restored from supplied historical reference material on 2026-09-25.

Historical facts retain the provenance and uncertainty of the cited references. Source timestamps record when the supplied material was imported, not an independent source retrieval or verification.

Supplementary content updated: 2026-09-24. This does not change the original verification status or review date.