Historical reference record — not independently verified
Shark incident at Mazatlán (historical URL label; exact source location not independently confirmed), Pacific coast of Mexico; historical URL labels Sinaloa, MEXICO — 1980-07-18
What happened
Historical record: Mazatlán (historical URL label; exact source location not independently confirmed), Pacific coast of Mexico; historical URL labels Sinaloa, MEXICO. Recorded date: 1980-07-18. Classification: Unprovoked.
What is known
- Recorded classification: Unprovoked
What remains uncertain
- The victim/event is independently documented, but the exact Mazatlán location encoded in the legacy URL was not independently established in this research pass.
- Historical source match supplied with the recovery material; not independently verified.
Fact panel
- Date
- 1980-07-18
- Date precision
- Exact
- Location
- Mazatlán (historical URL label; exact source location not independently confirmed), Pacific coast of Mexico; historical URL labels Sinaloa, MEXICO
- Country
- MEXICO
- Activity
- Diving in a tuna net / attempting to free porpoises
- Incident classification
- Unprovoked
- Area / state
- Pacific coast of Mexico; historical URL labels Sinaloa
- Person / vessel
- Gerald Correria
- Age
- 22
- Sex
- M
- Injury / case note
- Suffered a severe arm wound and died several hours later.
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Species
- Unknown
- Species confidence
- Unknown
- Coordinate precision
- Unknown
Incident location
Mazatlán (historical URL label; exact source location not independently confirmed), Pacific coast of Mexico; historical URL labels Sinaloa, MEXICO
The recorded area has not yet been matched reliably to the map.
Sources and verification
- Historical Congressional Record / GSAF-derived recovery record — www.congress.govSupports: 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 This page shows the current verification status and was last restored from supplied historical reference material on 2026-09-25.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.