Non-fatal Great White Shark Attack

2008 Huntington Beach, Orange County, California, USA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

2008

⏰ 08h00

📍 Location

Huntington Beach, Orange County, California, USA

🌍 USA

🏊 Activity

Surfing

⚕️ Outcome

No Injury

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 27

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

No injury to surfer, surfboard bitten by the shark

🦈 Species Information

Great White Shark

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

📹 Learn More About Great White Sharks

🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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Sharks don't get cancer.

Great white sharks are the largest sharks.

Sharks can only live in salt water.

Sharks can detect electrical fields.

Sharks sleep like humans do.