Shark Incidents

A comprehensive collection of shark attack incidents worldwide.

Fatal Tiger Shark Attack

2020 Orient Beach, ST MARTIN

📋 Table of Contents

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

2020

⏰ 14h00

📍 Location

Orient Beach, ST MARTIN

🌍 ST MARTIN

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 39

Gender: F

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL

🦈 Species Information

Tiger Shark

This species has been involved in 335 documented attacks in our database.

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