List of all shark attacks in Unknown

Fatal Attacks

193

Unprovoked Attacks

286

Total Attacks

463

There have been a total of 463 shark attacks in Unknown. Out of those, 193 have unfortunately been fatal which brings the percentage of fatal attacks to 41.68%. 286 attacks came out of the blue while 177 have been provoked by humans.

Provoked

Unprovoked

Fatal

Non Fatal

Location	Date	Time	Species	Activity	Injury	Fatal	Person
Le Port	31-07-2006		Bull shark, 1.5m	Spearfishing	Thigh bitten	NO	male
	15-11-2005		4.5 m white shark		No injury to occupants, shark lifted bow of boat 3 times	NO	3.8-m boat with 3 people on board
On deck of fishing trawler 100 nautical miles offshore	01-09-2005		2 m [6.75'] shark, 200-kg shark T	Removing shark from net	FATAL PROVOKED INCIDENT	YES	21yo Ham, a Cambodian migrant worker
	16-07-2005		Shark involvement prior to death was not confirmed	Swimming	Presumed to have drowned until his body washed ashore 2 weeks later with shark bites	NO	Valentyn Onuk
	14-07-2005		No shark involvement		A hoax - No shark was involved and Wells' "daughter" was his business partner Eileen Purchase who injured her finger on his boat	NO	Jeff Wells claimed he rescued his "daughter" from a 4 m tiger shark
	02-05-2005		2.5 m shark	Fishing	Thigh bitten	NO	Sochidjin
Punta Caracas	24-03-2005	17h30		Surfing	Right leg bitten	NO	Jokin Leizaola
Coral Bay, Sharm-el-Sheikh	13-02-2004			Snorkeling	FATAL	YES	male
Shark caught in Indonesia, offloaded to trawler that docked at Samut Prakan, 20 miles south of Bangk	15-06-2002		Shark involvement prior to death was not confirmed		Human remains (right forearm & leg) recovered from 3.7m [12'] tiger shark’s gut. Forensic examination suggested the remains had been consumed by the shark one to two weeks earlier	NO
	22-02-2002			Capsized fishing boat	FATAL	YES	John Sutton

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