Shark Incidents

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Fatal Fishing Attack

2019 Cook Reef, Bélep Islands, NEW CALEDONIA

📋 Table of Contents

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

2019

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Cook Reef, Bélep Islands, NEW CALEDONIA

🌍 NEW CALEDONIA

🏊 Activity

Fishing

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 43

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL

🦈 Species Information

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Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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