Non-fatal Great White Shark Attack

1967 Stretto di Messina, Sicily, ITALY

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1967

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Stretto di Messina, Sicily, ITALY

🌍 ITALY

🏊 Activity

Fishing

⚕️ Outcome

No Injury

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: Unknown

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Provoked

🩹 Injury Details

No injury to occupants, harpooned shark sank boat PROVOKED INCIDENT

🦈 Species Information

Great White Shark

This species has been involved in 744 documented attacks in our database.

📹 Learn More About Great White Sharks

🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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Most shark attacks occur in shallow water close to shore.

Sharks have been around longer than trees.

Great white sharks are the largest sharks.

Sharks don't get cancer.

Sharks can smell a drop of blood from miles away.