Non-fatal Attack
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📊 Attack Details
📅 Date & Time
1949
⏰ Time unknown
📍 Location
Miramar Beach, Tampico, Tamaulipas, MEXICO
🌍 MEXICO
🏊 Activity
Other
⚕️ Outcome
Other
🟡 Non-fatal
👤 Victim Details
Age: Unknown
Gender: M
🏷️ Attack Type
Unprovoked
🩹 Injury Details
U.S. destroyer John W. Weeks, 6 miles offshore, demonstrating guns & bombs for Mexican officials was thought to have driven the shark into the shallows where it bit the bather before other bathers drove it away with sticks & clubs.
🦈 Species Information
Unknown species
4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.