Fatal Tiger Shark Attack

1953 Off Rossel Island, Louisiade Archipelago, Milne Bay Province, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1953

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Off Rossel Island, Louisiade Archipelago, Milne Bay Province, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

🌍 PAPUA NEW GUINEA

🏊 Activity

Boating

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: Unknown

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL, arm & leg severed & shark smashed at his body with its tail

🦈 Species Information

Tiger Shark

This species has been involved in 335 documented attacks in our database.

📹 Learn More About Tiger Sharks

🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

Test your shark knowledge! Click "Reveal Answer" to see if each statement is a myth or fact, then learn the science behind it.

Sharks can only live in salt water.

Great white sharks are the largest sharks.

Sharks can detect electrical fields.

Sharks sleep like humans do.

Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.