Non-fatal Great White Shark Attack

1996 Bird Rock, Tomales Point, California, USA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1996

⏰ 11h15

📍 Location

Bird Rock, Tomales Point, California, USA

🌍 USA

🏊 Activity

Diving

⚕️ Outcome

Other

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 36

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

Left shoulder, forearm, hand & abdomen lacerated

🦈 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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Sharks can only live in salt water.

Sharks can detect electrical fields.

Sharks are older than dinosaurs.

Sharks have been around longer than trees.

Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.