Non-fatal Fishing Attack

2012 Off the Isle of Islay, Inner Hebrides, SCOTLAND

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

2012

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Off the Isle of Islay, Inner Hebrides, SCOTLAND

🌍 SCOTLAND

🏊 Activity

Fishing

⚕️ Outcome

No Injury

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 53

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Provoked

🩹 Injury Details

No injury, shoe bitten by hooked and landed shark PROVOKED INCIDENT

🦈 Species Information

Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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