Shark Incidents

A comprehensive collection of shark attack incidents worldwide.

Non-fatal Great White Shark Attack

2017 Nahoon Reef, East London, Eastern Cape Province, SOUTH AFRICA

📋 Table of Contents

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

2017

⏰ 15h00

📍 Location

Nahoon Reef, East London, Eastern Cape Province, SOUTH AFRICA

🌍 SOUTH AFRICA

🏊 Activity

Surfing

⚕️ Outcome

No Injury

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 13

Gender: F

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

No injury, shark bit surfboard

🦈 Species Information

Great White Shark

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

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