Shark Incidents

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Fatal Diving Attack

1976 Maha'ulepu, Koloa, Kaua'i, Hawaii, USA

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📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1976

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Maha'ulepu, Koloa, Kaua'i, Hawaii, USA

🌍 USA

🏊 Activity

Diving

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 18

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL, disappeared while diving, lower portion of body recovered

🦈 Species Information

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Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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