Shark Incidents

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Fatal Diving Attack

1990 Dingo Reef, 80 nm off Townsville, Queensland, AUSTRALIA

📋 Table of Contents

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1990

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Dingo Reef, 80 nm off Townsville, Queensland, AUSTRALIA

🌍 AUSTRALIA

🏊 Activity

Diving

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 37

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

Presumed FATAL

🦈 Species Information

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Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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