Non-fatal Blacktip Shark Attack

1962 Long Cay, Grand Turk Island, BRITISH WEST INDIES

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1962

⏰ 14h30

📍 Location

Long Cay, Grand Turk Island, BRITISH WEST INDIES

🌍 BRITISH WEST INDIES

🏊 Activity

Fishing

⚕️ Outcome

Bite

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 24

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

Left thigh & hand & speargun bitten

🦈 Species Information

Blacktip Shark

This species has been involved in 113 documented attacks in our database.

📹 Learn More About Blacktip Sharks

🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.

Great white sharks are the largest sharks.

Sharks can regrow their teeth throughout their lives.

Sharks sleep like humans do.

Sharks are colorblind.