Fatal Great White Shark Attack

1996 Hirara City, Miyako, OKINAWA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1996

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Hirara City, Miyako, OKINAWA

🌍 OKINAWA

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 52

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL, torso & abdomen bitten, forearm severedL

🦈 Species Information

Great White Shark

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

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🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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Baby sharks are called pups.

Sharks don't get cancer.

Sharks are colorblind.

Sharks can smell a drop of blood from miles away.

Sharks can regrow their teeth throughout their lives.