A WA spearfisherman shot an attacking mako through the gills at 4 ft. His teen son swam 200 yds to finish it. Makos were rare there. 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 were forensically confirmed as great white shark by Scripps Institution of Oceanography — the first confirmed fatality in the region since 1959.

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In 1985, a Rosensteil School of Marine Sciences researcher, photographing 20–25 silky sharks at depth with four colleagues, was contacted by one — later describing it in a self-authored account as incidental, not a behavioural attack.

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In 1971, a swimmer was fatally attacked by a Great White shark near Ika, Croatia in the Adriatic Sea — a rare recorded instance, documented by Italian press and the Global Shark Accident File.

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