Shark Incidents

A comprehensive collection of shark attack incidents worldwide.

Fatal Great White Shark Attack

1997 Hirara, Miyako, OKINAWA

📋 Table of Contents

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1997

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Hirara, Miyako, OKINAWA

🌍 OKINAWA

🏊 Activity

Fishing

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 55

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL, legs severed

🦈 Species Information

Great White Shark

This species has been involved in 744 documented attacks in our database.

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