Date13-Apr-1949
TypeUnprovoked
CountryMEXICO
LocationMiramar Beach, Tampico
ActivityBathing
InjuryU.S. destroyer John W. Weeks, 6 miles offshore, demonstrating guns & bombs for Mexican officials was thought to have driven the shark into the shallows where it bit the bather before other bathers drove it away with sticks & clubs.
Victimmale, Male
SourceNew York Herald Tribune, 4/15/1949
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