Fatal Great White Shark Attack

1936 South Steyne, Manly, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1936

⏰ 15h00

📍 Location

South Steyne, Manly, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

🌍 AUSTRALIA

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 14

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL, taken by shark, body not recovered. Twenty months later, in October 1937, meshing (setting anti-shark gill nets) began at metropolitan beaches

🦈 Species Information

Great White Shark

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

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