Non-fatal Blacktip Shark Attack

2014 Tiahura Lagoon, Moorea, FRENCH POLYNESIA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

2014

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Tiahura Lagoon, Moorea, FRENCH POLYNESIA

🌍 FRENCH POLYNESIA

🏊 Activity

Fishing

⚕️ Outcome

Other

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 36

Gender: F

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

Thumb & finger nipped

🦈 Species Information

Blacktip Shark

This species has been involved in 113 documented attacks in our database.

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🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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Sharks are colorblind.

Baby sharks are called pups.

Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.

Sharks have no bones.

Sharks have been around longer than trees.