Shark Incidents

A comprehensive collection of shark attack incidents worldwide.

Non-fatal Swimming Attack

2009 Castle Beach, NEVIS

📋 Table of Contents

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

2009

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Castle Beach, NEVIS

🌍 NEVIS

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Other

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: Unknown

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Other

🩹 Injury Details

Death was due to drowning. Two days later his remains were recovered from a 12' tiger shark

🦈 Species Information

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Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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