Shark Attacks: The Database
GSAF Case # | 1954.07.28 |
---|---|
Date | 28 Jul 1954 |
Country | Singapore |
Area | Area unknown |
Location | Singapore Harbor |
Activity | Closed circuit diving (submerged). Diving to recover jettisoned packets of opium for police |
Name | C.B. Larkin, a Royal Navy diver |
Sex | Male |
Age | 28 |
Injury | FATAL, abdomen, buttock, right thigh & hands bitten |
Time | |
Species | |
Investigator or Source | New York Times, 7/29/1954; V.M. Coppleson (1958), p.266; H.D. Baldridge, p.183; |
Fatal? | Fatal |
Unprovoked? | Unprovoked |