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List of all shark attacks by Great White shark

Fatal Attacks

144

Unprovoked Attacks

490

Total Attacks

647

Great White shark is responsible for 647 attacks. Out of those, 144 have unfortunately been fatal which brings the percentage of fatal attacks to 22.26%. 490 attacks came out of the blue while 157 have been provoked by humans.

Provoked

Unprovoked

Fatal

Non Fatal

CountryLocationDateTimeSpeciesActivityInjuryFatalPerson
AUSTRALIA Cactus Beach near Penong 23-09-2000 07h30White shark, 4 m to 5 m [13' to 16.5']SurfingFATALYES 25yo Cameron Bayes
OKINAWA Sunayama Beach 15-09-2000 17h00White shark, 2.5 mSurfingFATALYES 31yo Takayuki Miura
SOUTH AFRICA Dyer Island 09-09-2000 11h00White shark, 3.5 m [11.5'] maleFree divingSwim fin bittenNO 48yo Gary Adkison
SOUTH AFRICA Struis Bay 18-02-2000 14h00White shark, 2.5 mBody surfingFoot bittenNO Dr. Weich
BRAZIL Boa Viagem Beach, Recife 25-12-1999 Thought to involve a white, bull or tiger sharkSurfingLeg bitten, surgically amputatedNO 18yo Alton Cicero da Silva
USA Waddell Reef, Santa Cruz County 14-11-1999 White sharkSurfing (sitting on his board)No injury, board bittenNO Jack Wolf
ITALY San Benedetto 23-09-1999 Said to involve a 7 m [23'] white sharkFishingNo Injury to occupantsNO Boat “Coca Cola”
USA North of Pidgeon Point, San Mateo County 18-09-1999 18h30White sharkKayakingNo injury, but kayak scraped & dentedNO 37yo Tod Wallersheim
SOUTH AFRICA Kogebaai 28-07-1999 14h00White shark, 3 m to 5 m [10' to 16.5']SurfingRight thigh bittenNO 42yo Sergio Capri
SOUTH AFRICA Buffels Bay (near Knysna) 14-07-1999 11h15White sharkBoogie boardingFATALYES 14yo Hercules Pretorius
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