Non-fatal Great White Shark Attack

1953 Fourchu, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, CANADA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1953

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Fourchu, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, CANADA

🌍 CANADA

🏊 Activity

Fishing

⚕️ Outcome

Other

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: Unknown

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Watercraft

🩹 Injury Details

Burns drowned as result of attack on boat

🦈 Species Information

Great White Shark

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

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🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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Baby sharks are called pups.

Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.

Sharks can only live in salt water.

Sharks have been around longer than trees.

Sharks can regrow their teeth throughout their lives.