Non-fatal Bull Shark Attack

2017 Boot Reef, Torres Strait, Queensland, AUSTRALIA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

2017

⏰ 12h00

📍 Location

Boot Reef, Torres Strait, Queensland, AUSTRALIA

🌍 AUSTRALIA

🏊 Activity

Diving

⚕️ Outcome

Other

🟡 Non-fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 55

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

Multiple injuries to arm, wrist and torso

🦈 Species Information

Bull Shark

This species has been involved in 223 documented attacks in our database.

📹 Learn More About Bull Sharks

🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.

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Sharks are colorblind.

Sharks don't get cancer.

You're more likely to be struck by lightning than attacked by a shark.