Non-fatal Tiger Shark Attack

2002 Piedade Beach, Jaboatão dos Guararapes City, Pernambuco, BRAZIL

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

2002

⏰ 15h00

📍 Location

Piedade Beach, Jaboatão dos Guararapes City, Pernambuco, BRAZIL

🌍 BRAZIL

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Bite

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 19

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

Left thigh bitten, leg surgically amputated

🦈 Species Information

Tiger Shark

This species has been involved in 335 documented attacks in our database.

📹 Learn More About Tiger Sharks

🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

Test your shark knowledge! Click "Reveal Answer" to see if each statement is a myth or fact, then learn the science behind it.

Sharks can only live in salt water.

Sharks don't get cancer.

Great white sharks are the largest sharks.

Sharks have no bones.

Baby sharks are called pups.