Shark Attack Database

A comprehensive collection of shark attack incidents worldwide.

Non-fatal Attack

1950 City Beach, Perth, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA

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📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1950

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

City Beach, Perth, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA

🌍 AUSTRALIA

🏊 Activity

Other

⚕️ Outcome

Other

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: Unknown

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Other

🩹 Injury Details

Szot's right hand found in a 4.5' [14.5'] tiger shark caught 3/9/1950 at Safety Bay, south of Freemantle. His body, with bullet wound in head & right hand missing, washed shore - an apparent suicide

🦈 Species Information

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Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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