Non-fatal Nurse Shark Attack

2018 Coco Bay, Green Turtle Cay, Abaco Islands, BAHAMAS

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

2018

⏰ 08h30

📍 Location

Coco Bay, Green Turtle Cay, Abaco Islands, BAHAMAS

🌍 BAHAMAS

🏊 Activity

Wading

⚕️ Outcome

Other

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 56

Gender: F

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

Injury to lower left leg

🦈 Species Information

Nurse Shark

This species has been involved in 109 documented attacks in our database.

📹 Learn More About Nurse Sharks

🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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Sharks don't get cancer.

Sharks are older than dinosaurs.

Baby sharks are called pups.

Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.

Sharks are colorblind.