Shark Attack Incident

Palm Island, AUSTRALIA

January 15, 1956

Non-fatal

DateReported 16-Jan-1956

TypeUnprovoked

CountryAUSTRALIA

LocationPalm Island

ActivityDiving for trochus

InjuryLacerations to thighs

VictimStephen Conedo, Male, 18 years old

SourceThe Age, 1/15/1956; V.M. Coppleson (1958), p.245;

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