Non-fatal Swimming Attack

2013 Sant Marti d’Empuries Beach, L’Escala, Catalonia, SPAIN

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

2013

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Sant Marti d’Empuries Beach, L’Escala, Catalonia, SPAIN

🌍 SPAIN

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Other

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 48

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Other

🩹 Injury Details

Scrape to right forearm. Frennet says inflicted by a blue shark, but authorities question shark involvement

🦈 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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All sharks are dangerous to humans.

Most shark attacks occur in shallow water close to shore.

Sharks are older than dinosaurs.

Great white sharks are the largest sharks.

Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.