Date04-May-1944
TypeUnprovoked
CountryPANAMA
ActivityWashed overboard by swell
InjuryFATAL. His back was bitten as he was being towed to ship by rescuer, Lieut (j.g.) Stanley Kurta, then the shark pulled him below the surface.
VictimUS Naval seaman, one of a crew on a Panama Sea Frontier Naval Patrol craft manned by Coast Guard, Male
SourceStar & Herald (Panama), 5/17/1944; V.M. Coppleson (1958), p.6; V.M. Coppleson (1962), p.258;
Shark Data Lab