Non-fatal Mako Shark Attack

1956 North Auckland, North Island, NEW ZEALAND

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1956

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

North Auckland, North Island, NEW ZEALAND

🌍 NEW ZEALAND

🏊 Activity

Fishing

⚕️ Outcome

Bite

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 70

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Provoked

🩹 Injury Details

Bitten in cockpit of boat by shark caught 30 minutes earlier PROVOKED INCIDENT

🦈 Species Information

Mako Shark

This species has been involved in 60 documented attacks in our database.

📹 Learn More About Mako Sharks

🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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Great white sharks are the largest sharks.

Sharks can only live in salt water.

Sharks have been around longer than trees.

Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.

You're more likely to be struck by lightning than attacked by a shark.