Shark Attack Incident

Port Moresby, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

March 24, 1939

Fatal

Date24-Mar-1939

TypeUnprovoked

CountryPAPUA NEW GUINEA

LocationPort Moresby

ActivityDived for a coin

Species"a large shark"

InjuryFATAL, leg severed just below hip

VictimRaho-Heni, Male

SourceThe Papuan Villager, March 1939; G.P. Whitley, p.21

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