Fatal Blue Shark Attack

1959 Isonoura Beach, Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture, JAPAN

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1959

⏰ 14h30

📍 Location

Isonoura Beach, Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture, JAPAN

🌍 JAPAN

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 13 or 18

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL, left thigh bitten

🦈 Species Information

Blue Shark

This species has been involved in 58 documented attacks in our database.

📹 Learn More About Blue Sharks

🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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Baby sharks are called pups.

Sharks sleep like humans do.

Sharks don't get cancer.

Great white sharks are the largest sharks.

Sharks have been around longer than trees.