Here are the historical accounts of shark attacks that took place on December 19:
Date | Name | Sex | Age | Time | Country | Area | Location | Activity | Injury | Species | Sp_Length | |
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1 | 19-Dec-2012 | Richard Wands | M | 32 | 0830 | AUSTRALIA | Western Australia | Trigg Beach | Surfing | No injury | Tiger | 72 |
2 | 19-Dec-2008 | Boat Attacked | Open Ocean | 900 offshore | 900 offshore in Atlantic Ocean | Boating | No Injury | Hammerhead | 108 | |||
3 | 19-Dec-2008 | Ken Lindberg | M | New Zealand | Auckland | Maraetai Beach | Fishing with nets | 10 stitches above his ankle, four stitches to close his severed Achilles tendon and will not regain any feeling around his little toe. | Copper | |||
4 | 19-Dec-2007 | Wayne Francis Johanning | M | 53 | British Virgin Islands | British Virgin Islands | Green Bay | Scuba Diving | Fatal – Probably drowned then scavenged – searchers found the victim’s partly eaten body parts surrounded by tiger sharks. | Tiger | ||
5 | 19-Dec-1989 | George Sohswel | M | USA | Hawaii | 90 miles east of Hilo Hawai’i | Left leg & foot bitten by shark brought onboard. SPI | |||||
6 | 19-Dec-1981 | Lewis Boren | M | 24 | Evening | USA | California | South Moss Beach Spanish Bay Monterey Peninsula | Surfing | Fatal – torso bitten | White | 276 |
7 | 19-Dec-1977 | Raymond Brockway | M | 27 | USA | Florida | Hobe Sound, Palm Beach County | Surfing | Laceration to right hand | |||
8 | 19-Dec-1977 | Kim Pearce | M | 18 | 10h00 | South Africa | Eastern Cape Province | Qolera River | Surfing | Both legs bitten 2 days later gangrene necessitated surgical amputation of left leg at mid-thigh | Tiger | 120 |
9 | 19-Dec-1965 | David Fellows | M | 14h00 | JOHNSTON ISLAND | Freediving | No injury | Grey Reef | ||||
10 | 19-Dec-1961 | 20′ boat of Frank Stocker | Australia | South Australia | Cowell | Fishing | No injury to occupant; shark leapt into boat | 108 | ||||
11 | 19-Dec-1959 | Mamerto Daanong Tomas Inog & others | M | 12h15 | PHILIPPINES | Masbate | Balud | Sea Disaster | 65 people survived 27 perished. Several people were bitten & one man lost his leg to a shark. | |||
12 | 19-Dec-1959 | Stanley Arthur Mullen | M | 29 | 06h00 | Australia | Queensland | Off Wynnum in Moreton Bay near Brisbane | Swimming | Fatal – | ||
13 | 19-Dec-1950 | Swimmer 2 | Australia | New South Wales | Jervis Bay | Swimming | Legs Bitten | Wobbegong | 72 | |||
14 | 19-Dec-1950 | Swimmer 1 | Australia | New South Wales | Jervis Bay | Swimming | Legs Bitten | Wobbegong | 72 | |||
15 | 19-Dec-1940 | Jack Ryan | M | Australia | Queensland | Double Island Beach | Minor injury to leg | |||||
16 | 19-Dec-1936 | Racing scull occupant: C.E. Slaughter Queensland sculling champion | Australia | Queensland | Brisbane River | No injury to occupant. Shark damaged scull tooth fragments recovered | 120 | |||||
17 | 19-Dec-1899 | J. Richardson | M | Afternoon | Australia | Queensland | Tingalpa Creek | Fell into the water | Lower leg bitten |