Here are the historical accounts for shark attacks that took place on February 13:
Date | Name | Sex | Age | Time | Country | Area | Location | Activity | Injury | Species | Sp_Length | |
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1 | 13-Feb-2010 | Patricia Trumbull | F | 60 | 13h30 | AUSTRALIA | Queensland | Dent Island, Whitsundays | Snorkeling | Severe Lacerations to legs & buttocks | 78 | |
2 | 13-Feb-2006 | Unknown Male | M | 18 | 11h00 | Australia | Queensland | Golden Beach Caloundra | Wading | Lacerations to foot | ||
3 | 13-Feb-2005 | male | M | USA | Florida | Fort Lauderdale | Spearfishing | Hand bitten | Caribbean | 72 | ||
4 | 13-Feb-1994 | J. Magbanua | M | 17h00 | USA | Hawaii | Kailua Bay | Fishing | Arm bitten while trying to secure shark caught by navy personnel from vessel SPI | |||
5 | 13-Feb-1988 | Belinda Van Schalkwyk | F | 15 | 07h40 | South Africa | KZN | Mtunzini | Surfing | Leg bitten surgically amputated | Bull | |
6 | 13-Feb-1982 | Gladys Sackville | F | 75 | 10h37 | USA | Florida | Palm Beach | Swimming | Fatal – Shark-bitten body found floating 1.5 miles offshore. Bruises suggested she may have been bitten by the shark before drowning | ||
7 | 13-Feb-1974 | Damon Kendrick | M | 14 | 19h00 | South Africa | KZN | Inyoni Rocks Amanzimtoti | Swimming | Right calf removed leg surgically amputated below the knee | ||
8 | 13-Feb-1974 | Joe Kool | M | 19 | 19h00 | South Africa | KZN | Inyoni Rocks Amanzimtoti | Swimming | Right shin lacerated | ||
9 | 13-Feb-1948 | Pilot Neil Womack | M | USA | Texas | Gulf of Mexico between Brownsville & Carmen Mexico | Sea Disaster | Fatal -. Womack was injured when plane went down 3 days later he jumped off liferaft & was taken by a shark | ||||
10 | 13-Feb-1941 | Robert Hes | M | 34 | Australia | New South Wales | Wollongong | Fishing | Hand bitten | |||
11 | 13-Feb-1937 | John Welsh | M | 32 | 15h20 | Australia | New South Wales | Bar Beach Newcastle | Swimming | Fatal – buttocks ankle & right elbow bitten | White | |
12 | 13-Feb-1932 | Eric Francis Beck | M | AUSTRALIA | Queensland | Calliope River | Fishing with dynamite | Foot Bitten | ||||
13 | 13-Feb-1924 | Nita Derritt | F | 30 | 19h00 | Australia | New South Wales | Bronte | Bathing | Legs severely bitten surgically amputated | ||
14 | 13-Feb-1886 | Boat | Australia | Victoria | Mordialloc | Boating – shark shook boat “stem to stern” | No Injury – shark shook boat “stem to stern” | |||||
15 | 13-Feb-1878 | an Arab who had been with Stanley when he met Livingstone | M | South Africa | Western Cape Province | Olifantbos Point | Sea Disaster | Fatal – shark removed large part of his hip |