Shark Incidents

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Fatal Surfing Attack

1993 El Cocal Beach, La Libertad, EL SALVADOR

📋 Table of Contents

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1993

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

El Cocal Beach, La Libertad, EL SALVADOR

🌍 EL SALVADOR

🏊 Activity

Surfing

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 17

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL, arms & legs bitten, then drowned

🦈 Species Information

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Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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