Shark Incidents

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Fatal Diving Attack

1979 Mbibi, KwaZulu-Natal, SOUTH AFRICA

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📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1979

⏰ >12h00

📍 Location

Mbibi, KwaZulu-Natal, SOUTH AFRICA

🌍 SOUTH AFRICA

🏊 Activity

Diving

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: Unknown

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL (presumed), pieces of shark-bitten wetsuit washed ashore but no body was recovered

🦈 Species Information

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Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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