Shark Incidents

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Non-fatal Surfing Attack

2014 Aichi, Atsumi peninsula, JAPAN

📋 Table of Contents

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

2014

⏰ Afternoon

📍 Location

Aichi, Atsumi peninsula, JAPAN

🌍 JAPAN

🏊 Activity

Surfing

⚕️ Outcome

Bite

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 43

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

Left arm bitten

🦈 Species Information

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Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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