Shark Attack Database

A comprehensive collection of shark attack incidents worldwide.

Non-fatal Attack

1997 Botany Bay?, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

📋 Table of Contents

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1997

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Botany Bay?, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

🌍 AUSTRALIA

🏊 Activity

Unknown

⚕️ Outcome

Other

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 21

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Other

🩹 Injury Details

5 m white shark obsrved feeding on remains 6 days later

🦈 Species Information

?

Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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