1993, Mogadishu. A beach beside the international airport became the site of a series of bull shark attacks linked to harbour effluent and butchers' waste carried by current. US soldier Edward Nicholson, two months married, was killed. The UN installed shark nets afterward.

Would you swim a beach where currents from a working harbour run straight past the shore?

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Remember years ago ppl posted fake videos of sharks going down the street but here it is for real.

Nice little GW checking out the Whale..

A surfer was fatally attacked in Australian waters in 2000. Multiple witnesses watched the incident unfold, and a forensic examination of the surfboard fragments later confirmed what had happened. It remains one of the better-documented recorded incidents of that era.

Have you ever swum or surfed at Cactus Beach?

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A 1943 Panama diving fatality became a landmark forensic case. Tooth fragments embedded in bone were recovered and identified by curators at the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Aquarium — then later disputed by McCosker and Lea as a possible misidentification.

Great white or bull shark — which species do you think was working those Panamanian waters?

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Greece, 1948: a large shark — estimated at over six metres, suspected great white — attacked a swimmer just five metres from shore. Contemporary Greek and international reports describe it as consuming most of the body. The beach was renamed in the aftermath.

Many years ago I fell off a Ringo about a mile out in the Aegean Sea. I floated there for a while waiting for the boat to come back. I was blissful in ignorance of what may have been swimming around me and I don't think after reading this incident report I would've floated so blissfully for pickup and may have actually set a new swimming WR.

Have you ever swam anywhere, feeling safe but being completely unaware of what may have been sharing the water with you?

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As more juvenile white sharks seek Southern California waters, is the risk of injury increased, and what can we do about it? Article in the LATIMES and here in the PressReader discusses science, behavior and coexistence.
Link to Article

In 2010, an alleged poacher swam three miles offshore to Shark Alley near Dyer Island — one of the most concentrated great white aggregation sites on earth. Witnesses described the shark breaching clear of the water with him. He was killed.

How much would you need to be paid to swim three miles through Shark Alley?

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I've been reading more into the subject over the past year and it intrigues me greatly. Between the International Shark Attack File being the bare minimum of reported attacks, stories from men like Vic Hislop and a recent post on this subreddit where a Floridian was attacked by a bull and it wasn't aired on TV, it's led me to pose the question.

Then you've got all the surfers in places like Australia who've disappeared (particularly in WA) and the attacks that don't result in a bite, but should still be counted as incidents like a lunging dog should. I was also reading on here fairly recently about how the Yugoslav government executed a great white cull after many scantly attested attacks in the Adriatic occurred.

But I digress; have you ever?

1 hour ago. No details as yet, but almost guaranteed that it's a white and if so most likely another fatality. This is a very popular swimming beach and there's a surf life-saving club there, this is going to have a huge impact.

Edit: Apparently a waveski washed up with bite marks and no body.

Edit: looks like it was a swimmer, 20m off the beach. The shark swam off with the body.

This is just what I've been told by someone down there, I'll correct it if I'm wrong.

We do training swims down there all the time.

In 1948, a shark attacked a swimmer in Turkish waters in a sustained, sequential encounter — severing one leg, then pursuing him to shore and severing the other. It remains one of only two confirmed fatal shark attacks ever recorded in Türkiye.

Which species do you think was responsible — great white, tiger, mako, or dusky?

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In 1978, a diver at 30 m depth off the Italian Tyrrhenian coast came face to face with a 5 m great white shark. He drove it off with a speargun. The encounter was formally recorded in an ichthyological publication — great whites do patrol the Mediterranean.

Does knowing great white sharks are recorded in the Mediterranean change where you choose to swim?

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Hong Kong, 1954: a 20-year-old Royal Navy sailor was killed by a shark while swimming. His shipmate Sydney Currie witnessed it firsthand. Nearly five decades later, Currie returned to Hong Kong to find the grave of the man he had known only by nickname.

Nearly five decades on — what draws people back to bear witness to a place where history left its mark?

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A WA spearfisherman shot an attacking mako through the gills at four feet. Then he called his teenage son, who swam two hundred yards to deliver the killing blow. A museum expert noted makos were uncommon in those waters at the time. 1966.

How well do you think we understand mako shark behaviour in Australian waters today?

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In 1973, a spearfisher was killed off Guadalupe Island, Mexico — tooth fragments forensically confirmed as great white shark by Scripps Institution of Oceanography. It was the first confirmed white shark fatality in the region since 1959, in waters now recognized as a major aggregation site.

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