List of all shark attacks in pacific-ocean
Fatal Attacks
8
Unprovoked Attacks
4
Total Attacks
19
There have been a total of 19 shark attacks in PACIFIC OCEAN. Out of those, 8 have unfortunately been fatal which brings the percentage of fatal attacks to 42.11%. 4 attacks came out of the blue while 15 have been provoked by humans.
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Unprovoked
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Non Fatal
| Location | Date | Time | Species | Activity | Injury | Fatal | Person |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20-03-1972 | Fishing | Arm bitten by hooked shark PROVOKED INCIDENT | NO | 33yo John Fairfax | |||
| 14' shark | Fishing | FATAL, remains recovered from 2 sharks | YES | male, a cook | |||
| FATAL | YES | 8 US airmen in the water, 1 was bitten by a shark | |||||
| Off Central American coast at 8N.79W | 11h00 | Moving shark from tuna vessel when boat rolled, placing both man & shark in chest-deep water | Right arm punctured, finger lacerated PROVOKED INCIDENT | NO | 29yo Charles Kaufmann | ||
| Invalid | B-24 crashed during a search mission. Survivors in raft for 47 days | Survived | NO | Louis Zamperini & Russell Phillips | |||
| Between Esmeraldas & Salinas | 17h30 | Ditched aircraft, 3 men in the water. Swam for 31 hours | 1 man survived & was rescued, sharks took the corpses of the two men that perished | YES | Colonel B. & Sub-Lieutenant D. | ||
| In rubber dinghy with Captain Eddie Rickenbacker for 21 days. | One man drove a knife through rubberized canvas trying to stab a shark & it injured him with its tail PROVOKED INCIDENT | NO | male | ||||
| Royal Hawaiian skymaster DC-6B aircraft went down with 58 passenger & crew | Recuers fought sharks for the bodies | NO | |||||
| The USS Wahoo torpedoes & sank the Japanese troop transport Buyo Maru | FATAL | YES | Japanese seamen | ||||
| Japanese freighter Bokuyo Maru burned & sank | Thought to have been taken by a shark | YES | 3yo child |
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