List of all shark attacks in bermuda
Fatal Attacks
2
Unprovoked Attacks
7
Total Attacks
16
There have been a total of 16 shark attacks in BERMUDA. Out of those, 2 have unfortunately been fatal which brings the percentage of fatal attacks to 12.50%. 7 attacks came out of the blue while 9 have been provoked by humans.
Provoked
Unprovoked
Fatal
Non Fatal
| Location | Date | Time | Species | Activity | Injury | Fatal | Person |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26-07-1989 | Shark involvement suspected but not confirmed | Scuba diving | FATAL | NO | 35yo Russian male | ||
| 07-03-1981 | Foundering of the Israeli freighter Mezada | Next day 2 bodies recovered from sharks | NO | ||||
| 31-12-1974 | 8' blue shark | Spearfishing | Laceration to right ankle | NO | 25yo Geeteh Toussaint | ||
| Royal Canadian Navy CS2F-1 aircraft ditched in the sea 180 nautical miles WNW of Bermuda at 01h30 | 09h00 - 09h30 | Questionable incident | Floating on a raft | No injury, 5 sharks bumped raft | NO | 21, 34,24 & 35yo Crew of aircraft: McGreevy, Beakley, Rosenthal, Ryan & Hodge | |
| Nine miles off Frasconi Flats | 1.5 m [5'] shark | Fishing | Right foot bitten by shark caught & taken onboard by Mrs. Tucker North PROVOKED INCIDENT | NO | Captain Earnest Gibbons, skipper of the cruiser Cupid | ||
| Astwood's Cove | Shark involvement prior to death was not confirmed | Murdered, body scavenged by sharks | NO | 29yo Dorothy Barbara Rawlinson | |||
| Elbow Beach | 2.4 m [8'] shark, possibly a dusky shark | Swimming | Left thigh bitten, chest lacerated & defense wounds on foot, fingers and hands | NO | 22yo Sub-Lieut. Edwin Michael Marks, of H.M.S. Sheffield | ||
| 18 miles southwest of Bermuda | 01h30 | British patrol boat 1250-ton HMS Valerian foundered in a hurricane | Of 104 people in the water, only 20 survived. 84 people were lost, many to sharks. Sharks 2 pulled crew off life rafts | NO | |||
| Hamilton Parish | Night | Fishing | Arm bitten by hooked shark PROVOKED INCIDENT | NO | McCallan | ||
| Hamilton | 14-08-1967 | 16h00 | Floating | Right foot abraded & lacerated | NO | 19yo Sue Ferguson |
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