Fatal Swimming Attack

2020 Esperance, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA

📋 Table of Contents

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

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

2020

⏰ 16h10

📍 Location

Esperance, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA

🌍 AUSTRALIA

🏊 Activity

Swimming

⚕️ Outcome

Other

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: 21

Gender: M

🏷️ Attack Type

Questionable

🩹 Injury Details

Probable drowning and scavenging

🦈 Species Information

Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

📹 Learn More About Sharks

🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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Sharks have been around longer than trees.

Sharks must keep swimming or they will die.

Sharks can regrow their teeth throughout their lives.

Sharks are colorblind.

Sharks can only live in salt water.