Fatal Boating Attack

1959 400 miles southeast of Sri Lanka, MALDIVE ISLANDS

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1959

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

400 miles southeast of Sri Lanka, MALDIVE ISLANDS

🌍 MALDIVE ISLANDS

🏊 Activity

Boating

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 3

Gender: F

🏷️ Attack Type

Sea Disaster

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL

🦈 Species Information

Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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