Fatal Tiger Shark Attack

2017 Manuelita, Cocos Island, COSTA RICA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

2017

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Manuelita, Cocos Island, COSTA RICA

🌍 COSTA RICA

🏊 Activity

Diving

⚕️ Outcome

Fatal

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 49

Gender: F

🏷️ Attack Type

Unprovoked

🩹 Injury Details

FATAL

🦈 Species Information

Tiger Shark

This species has been involved in 335 documented attacks in our database.

📹 Learn More About Tiger Sharks

🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

Test your shark knowledge! Click "Reveal Answer" to see if each statement is a myth or fact, then learn the science behind it.

Sharks can detect electrical fields.

Sharks can only live in salt water.

Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.

Sharks are older than dinosaurs.

Sharks have been around longer than trees.