Date27-Jan-1959
TypeUnprovoked
CountryECUADOR
LocationCrewing on the tuna clipper Mary Barbara
ActivityWashed overboard into school of fish
SpeciesBitten by several 1.8 m [6'] sharks
InjuryRight leg & left foot lacerated
VictimTheodore C. Swienty, Male, 57 years old
SourceNY World -Telegram & Sun, 1/28/1959; Note: V.M. Coppleson (1962), p.246, records the date as 3/5/1959
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