Non-fatal Great White Shark Attack

2015 Belongil Beach, Byron Bay, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

2015

⏰ 11h00

📍 Location

Belongil Beach, Byron Bay, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

🌍 AUSTRALIA

🏊 Activity

Surfing

⚕️ Outcome

No Injury

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 71

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

No injury, knocked off ski

🦈 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 have been around longer than trees.

Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.

Great white sharks are the largest sharks.

Baby sharks are called pups.

Sharks don't get cancer.