Fatal Swimming Attack

2000 Coco Beach, Dar-es-Salaam (Reported as the 5th fatality in 3 months at Coco Beach), TANZANIA

📋 Table of Contents

📊 Attack Details
🦈 Species Information
🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact
🔗 Related Attacks

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

2000

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Coco Beach, Dar-es-Salaam (Reported as the 5th fatality in 3 months at Coco Beach), TANZANIA

🌍 TANZANIA

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 28

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL

🦈 Species Information

Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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Great white sharks are the largest sharks.

Sharks can only live in salt water.

Sharks can regrow their teeth throughout their lives.

Sharks are colorblind.

Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.