Historical reference record — not independently verified
1994 shark incident east of Easter Island
What happened
Multiple historical incidents share this year and location URL. Each supplied record is shown separately.
What is known
- Recorded classification: Multi-incident location/year archive
What remains uncertain
- Two people were injured in the same event, so both belong on the recovered legacy URL.
- Historical source match supplied with the recovery material; not independently verified.
Fact panel
- Date
- Multiple dates — see individual records
- Date precision
- Year
- Location
- 1994 shark incident east of Easter Island, CHILE
- Country
- CHILE
- Activity
- Unknown
- Incident classification
- Multi-incident location/year archive
- Outcome
- Unknown
- Species
- Unknown
- Species confidence
- Reported
- Coordinate precision
- Unknown
Individual historical records
This historical URL contains multiple incidents at the recorded locality. Each record is retained separately.
Two people were injured in the same event, so both belong on the recovered legacy URL.
Phil Buffington — 1994-03-23
- date
- 1994-03-23
- person
- Phil Buffington
- sex
- M
- activity
- Swimming alongside NOAA research vessel
- outcome
- Non-fatal
- species
- White shark, about 3.6 m
- injury
- Thigh bitten.
Heather Boswell — 1994-03-23
- date
- 1994-03-23
- person
- Heather Boswell
- age
- 19
- sex
- F
- activity
- Swimming alongside NOAA research vessel
- outcome
- Non-fatal
- species
- White shark, about 3.6 m
- injury
- Leg severed at mid-thigh; survived.
Incident location
1994 shark incident east of Easter Island, CHILE
The recorded area has not yet been matched reliably to the map.
Sources and verification
- GSAF-derived 1994 Chile records — www.sharkdatalab.comSupports: 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 This page shows the current verification status and was last restored from supplied historical reference material on 2026-09-25.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.