Shark Incidents

A comprehensive collection of shark attack incidents worldwide.

Non-fatal Attack

2002 Shark caught in Indonesia, offloaded to trawler that docked at Samut Prakan, 20 miles south of Bangkok, Thailand, INDONESIA

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📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

2002

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Shark caught in Indonesia, offloaded to trawler that docked at Samut Prakan, 20 miles south of Bangkok, Thailand, INDONESIA

🌍 INDONESIA

🏊 Activity

Unknown

⚕️ Outcome

Other

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: Unknown

Gender: Unknown

🏷️ Attack Type

Other

🩹 Injury Details

Human remains (right forearm & leg) recovered from 3.7m [12'] tiger shark’s gut. Forensic examination suggested the remains had been consumed by the shark one to two weeks earlier

🦈 Species Information

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Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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