Non-fatal Boating Attack

1942 (Southwestern Pacific), MID-PACIFC OCEAN

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1942

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

(Southwestern Pacific), MID-PACIFC OCEAN

🌍 MID-PACIFC OCEAN

🏊 Activity

Boating

⚕️ Outcome

Other

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: Unknown

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Sea Disaster

🩹 Injury Details

Fingers badly lacerated, wounds became septic

🦈 Species Information

Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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