Shark Incidents

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Non-fatal Surfing Attack

1980 Ocean City, Cape May County, New Jersey, USA

📋 Table of Contents

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1980

⏰ 15h00

📍 Location

Ocean City, Cape May County, New Jersey, USA

🌍 USA

🏊 Activity

Surfing

⚕️ Outcome

Bite

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 15

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

Back bitten

🦈 Species Information

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Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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