Historical reference record — not independently verified
2003 Copacabana Beach shark incidents
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
- The GSAF-derived year archive confirms three Copacabana records in four days; the legacy slug cannot uniquely identify one.
- Historical source match supplied with the recovery material; not independently verified.
Fact panel
- Date
- Multiple dates — see individual records
- Date precision
- Year
- Location
- 2003 Copacabana Beach shark incidents, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
- Country
- BRAZIL
- Activity
- Unknown
- Incident classification
- Multi-incident location/year archive
- Area / state
- Rio de Janeiro
- Outcome
- Unknown
- Species
- Unknown
- Species confidence
- Reported
- Coordinate precision
- Region
Individual historical records
This historical URL contains multiple incidents at the recorded locality. Each record is retained separately.
The GSAF-derived year archive confirms three Copacabana records in four days; the legacy slug cannot uniquely identify one.
Not recovered in this pass — 2003-04-22
- date
- 2003-04-22
- person
- Not recovered in this pass
- activity
- Swimming
- outcome
- Non-fatal
- injury
- Non-fatal.
Not recovered in this pass — 2003-04-24
- date
- 2003-04-24
- person
- Not recovered in this pass
- activity
- Swimming
- outcome
- Non-fatal
- injury
- Non-fatal.
Male / record associated with killing sharks — 2003-04-25
- date
- 2003-04-25
- person
- Male / record associated with killing sharks
- sex
- M
- activity
- Killing sharks
- outcome
- Non-fatal
- injury
- Provoked/handling-context injury recorded.
Incident location
2003 Copacabana Beach shark incidents, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
Approximate area: Rio de Janeiro
The marker represents the named area, not the exact incident site.
The interactive map loads when it comes into view. Incident details remain available as text.
Location precision: Approximate area
Representative map position for Rio de Janeiro from Natural Earth. This marks the general area, not the exact incident site. This is historical location context, not live shark tracking or a measure of risk.
Sources and verification
- Shark Data Lab Brazil 2003 (GSAF-derived) — 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.