List of all shark attacks by Lemon shark
Fatal Attacks
1
Unprovoked Attacks
26
Total Attacks
40
Lemon shark is responsible for 40 attacks. Out of those, 1 have unfortunately been fatal which brings the percentage of fatal attacks to 2.50%. 26 attacks came out of the blue while 14 have been provoked by humans.
Provoked
Unprovoked
Fatal
Non Fatal
| Country | Location | Date | Time | Species | Activity | Injury | Fatal | Person |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SRI LANKA | Heda Oya Estuary | Possibly a lemon shark | Shark fishing | Buttock removed | NO | Aboobaker | ||
| USA | North end of Morris Island at mouth of Charleston Harbor | Thought to involve a 2.4 m [8'] lemon shark; two 2.4 m lemon sharks caught within 100 yds of the site a week prior to & a week after this incident | Sitting in 3' of water | Right knee & left leg bitten | NO | 15yo Dayton Hastie | ||
| USA | Lignum Vitae Channel, Florida Keys, Monroe County | Lemon shark, 1.8 m [6'] male, N. breviostris, identified by W.A. Stark II, later the same day a 6'8" pregnant female lemon shark bit the bow of the boat | No injury, harpooned shark bit hull, leaving tooth fragments. PROVOKED INCIDENT | NO | 16' skiff, occupant: W.A. Starck, II | |||
| SENEGAL | Isle de Gorée | 18h15 | Lemon shark | Skindiving, fish at belt | Right thigh bitten | NO | 19yo k | |
| BAHAMAS | Lerner Marine Laboratory | Lemon shark, 4' | Spearing a shark | Shark that he speared bit his calf PROVOKED INCIDENT | NO | 41yo Francisco Edmund Blanc, a scientist from National Museum in Paris | ||
| USA | Marathon, Monroe County | 18-08-1969 | Lemon shark, 9' | Fishing | Laceration to foot from dead shark PROVOKED INCIDENT | NO | adultyo Jack Horner | |
| USA | South Jetty, Galveston | 30-07-1966 | Lemon shark or sandtiger shark | Diving for sand dollars | Dorsum of right foot grazed | NO | 16yo Robert W. Russell | |
| BAHAMAS | Lerner Marine Lab | 29-07-1964 | Lemon shark, 0.5 m | Attempting to anesthetize shark | Chest bitten PROVOKED INCIDENT | NO | Karl Kuchnow | |
| PANAMA | 29-05-1964 | Lemon shark | Standing | No injury | NO | 47yo W.W. Fitzsimmons | ||
| USA | Key Largo Sound | 09-08-1960 | 20h00 | Lemon shark, 1164 mm, immature male, identified by V.G. Springer | Holding shark on leader & dangling it above the water | Right hand bitten by hooked shark PROVOKED INCIDENT | NO | 15yo Richard Henn |
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