Non-fatal Boating Attack

1940 Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1940

⏰ 15h30

📍 Location

Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

🌍 AUSTRALIA

🏊 Activity

Boating

⚕️ Outcome

No Injury

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: Unknown

Gender: Unknown

🏷️ Attack Type

Watercraft

🩹 Injury Details

No injury. Shark grazed canoe, snapped at a piece of mast being trailed in the water & followed it into 2' of water

🦈 Species Information

Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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