Date03-May-1939
TypeUnprovoked
CountryUSA
LocationAt sea, several hundred miles south east of Cape Henry, Virginia
ActivityWashed off freighter Huncliff by a freak wave
InjuryFATAL, attacked by shark, body not recovered
VictimJohn Heagan, Male
SourceL.A. Times, 5/7/1939; NY Times, 5/8/1939, p.18, col.1; V.M. Coppleson , p.253
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