Non-fatal Great White Shark Attack

2006 Sunrise Beach, Muizenberg, Western Cape Province, SOUTH AFRICA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

2006

⏰ 11h00

📍 Location

Sunrise Beach, Muizenberg, Western Cape Province, SOUTH AFRICA

🌍 SOUTH AFRICA

🏊 Activity

Other

⚕️ Outcome

Severe

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 24

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

Foot severed

🦈 Species Information

Great White Shark

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

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🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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Great white sharks are the largest sharks.

Sharks can detect electrical fields.

Sharks have been around longer than trees.

Sharks sleep like humans do.

Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.