Non-fatal Fishing Attack

2011 Khor Fakkan, Umm al Qaywayan Province, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE)

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

2011

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Khor Fakkan, Umm al Qaywayan Province, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE)

🌍 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE)

🏊 Activity

Fishing

⚕️ Outcome

Other

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 43

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Other

🩹 Injury Details

Erroneously reported on several internet sites as a "shark attack", it was the shark 8', 300-kg mako shark that was attacked, not the fisherman

🦈 Species Information

Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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