Date04-May-1944
TypeUnprovoked
CountryPANAMA
ActivityWashed overboard by swell
SpeciesWhite shark, 2.4 m [8']
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