1960 Shark attacks

92 attacks recorded (13 fatal)
1960 shark attacks
Date Country Region Location Fatal?  
Jan 1st 1960 South Africa Western Cape Province Muizenberg N
Jan 7th 1960 Australia Tasmania Eaglehawk Neck N
Jan 13th 1960 Australia Western Australia Geraldton N
Jan 16th 1960 Australia New South Wales Just below Roseville Bridge, opposite Killarney picnic reserve, Middle Harbor, Sydney Y
Jan 21st 1960 Australia South Australia Millicent N
Jan 26th 1960 Between Timor & Darwin, Australia N
Jan 30th 1960 Papua New Guinea Madang (WO) Off Taludig Village, at mouth of the Murnass River N
Feb 7th 1960 Australia New South Wales Wattamolla National Park N
Feb 10th 1960 Australia New South Wales Near Bondi Beach N
Feb 19th 1960 Papua New Guinea Central Province Tupuselei Village, about 40 miles east of Port Moresby Y
Feb 24th 1960 Senegal Casamance Ziguinchor N
Feb 27th 1960 USA Hawaii Between Keawakapu & Makena, Maui N
Feb 27th 1960 New Zealand North Island Mangawhai, near Wellsford N
Feb 29th 1960 Australia Tasmania Ralph Bay N
Mar 28th 1960 Guam N
Mar 31st 1960 USA Florida Off Boca Raton Hotel & Club, Boca Raton N
Apr 1st 1960 South Africa Western Cape Province Saldanha Bay N
Apr 1st 1960 Philippines Luzon Island Bataan Y
Apr 1st 1960 Fiji Vanua Levu Off the Bua coast Y
Apr 1st 1960 Australia South Australia Hog Bay N
Apr 3rd 1960 Australia New South Wales Off Broughton Island near Port Stephens N
Apr 3rd 1960 Australia Victoria Canadian Bay near Mount Eliza, 30 miles from Melbourne N
Apr 12th 1960 Australia New South Wales Horseshoe Bay, near Kempsey N
Apr 14th 1960 Atlantic Ocean 33N, 68W Royal Canadian Navy CS2F-1 aircraft ditched in the sea 180 nautical miles WNW of Bermuda at 01h30 N
Apr 20th 1960 South Africa Eastern Cape Province Port Alfred N
Apr 22nd 1960 Australia Western Australia Rottnest Island N
Apr 24th 1960 USA California Tomales Point, Marin County N
Apr 30th 1960 South Africa KZN Amanzimtoti N
May 1st 1960 Papua New Guinea Madang Taludig Y
May 16th 1960 USA Florida Lignum Vitae Channel, Florida Keys N
May 19th 1960 USA California Aptos, Santa Cruz County N
May 24th 1960 Bermuda Paget Elbow Beach / Coral Beach N
May 29th 1960 Panama San Blas Islands Off Diable Island N
Jun 4th 1960 USA Georgia North picnic area, Jekyll Island, Glynn County N
Jun 5th 1960 Philippines Corregidor Island Y
Jun 7th 1960 USA California 10 miles off Santa Barbara N
Jun 24th 1960 USA Florida 2 miles east of Dania Beach N
Jun 27th 1960 North Sea Unknown, treated at Wick, SCOTLAND On board East German fishing trawler, I Mai N
Jun 27th 1960 New Zealand Cook Strait Tory Channel N
Jun 29th 1960 USA South Carolina Little River Beach, Horry County N
Jul 1st 1960 Bahamas Andros Island N
Jul 1st 1960 South Africa Eastern Cape Province Kei River Mouth N
Jul 1st 1960 Mozambique Gaza Xai Xai Y
Jul 1st 1960 Papua New Guinea West New Britain Province West Nakanai, Talasea N
Jul 1st 1960 Papua New Guinea Madang Y
Jul 1st 1960 Grenada St. Georges Black Point Bay N
Jul 1st 1960 Nicaragua Pacific coast San Jan del Sur N
Jul 2nd 1960 Papua New Guinea Madang Bimat, Bogia N
Jul 3rd 1960 USA Virginia Hog Island N
Jul 5th 1960 USA Mississippi Mississippi City N
Jul 27th 1960 Papua New Guinea Milne Bay Province Taupota, Samarai N
Aug 1st 1960 USA South Carolina Parris Island Y
Aug 4th 1960 USA Delaware Mispillion Light, Delaware Bay N
Aug 4th 1960 England In the English Channel Off the south Devon coast N
Aug 10th 1960 USA Florida Key Largo Sound N
Aug 14th 1960 Mozambique Delagoa Bay Bella Vista N
Aug 21st 1960 USA New Jersey Sea Girt N
Aug 22nd 1960 USA New Jersey Seaside Park N
Aug 22nd 1960 Papua New Guinea Milne Bay Province N
Aug 24th 1960 USA Connecticut Off Eames Monument, Bridgeport N
Aug 25th 1960 USA Texas 30 miles east of Corpus Christi N
Aug 29th 1960 Senegal off Dakar N
Aug 30th 1960 USA New Jersey Ocean City N
Sep 1st 1960 Marshall Islands Eniwetok Atoll Parry Island N
Sep 2nd 1960 Marshall Islands Eniwetok Atoll Lagoon along Sand Island N
Sep 18th 1960 Australia Western Australia Frenchman Bay N
Sep 22nd 1960 Pacific Ocean 180 miles southeast of Okinawa N
Sep 24th 1960 USA South Carolina Atlantic Beach, Horry County N
Oct 1st 1960 Johnston Island N
Oct 1st 1960 South Africa Western Cape Province False Bay N
Oct 1st 1960 USA Florida Haulover Inlet N
Oct 1st 1960 Red Sea / Indian Ocean Enroute from Suez to Aden (Yemen) N
Oct 1st 1960 Papua New Guinea New Britain East Nakanai, Talasea N
Oct 1st 1960 Australia North Head N
Oct 24th 1960 South Africa Western Cape Province Jacobs Bay Reef, Saldanha Bay N
Oct 25th 1960 USA California Off Point Mugu, Ventura County N
Nov 1st 1960 Papua New Guinea Central Province Abau Subdistrict Y
Nov 1st 1960 New Guinea Western District Toro Passage N
Nov 1st 1960 South Africa Western Cape Province 5 km from Gordon N
Nov 6th 1960 Australia Western Australia Hamelin Bay N
Nov 11th 1960 Australia Queensland Scott N
Nov 22nd 1960 USA Florida Hutchinson Island Beach, Martin County Y
Nov 27th 1960 Australia Queensland Black N
Dec 1st 1960 Australia Queensland Colledge's Crossing, Brisbane River N
Dec 20th 1960 Australia Queensland College N
Dec 24th 1960 South Africa KZN Margate Y
Dec 27th 1960 Australia New South Wales Bondi Beach, Sydney N
Dec 27th 1960 USA Hawaii Maile Point, O'ahu Y
Dec 30th 1960 Iraq Basrah Shatt-al-Arab River near Abu al Khasib N
Dec 30th 1960 Iraq Basrah Shatt-al-Arab River N
Dec 30th 1960 Iraq Basrah Shatt-al-Arab River N
Dec 30th 1960 Sri Lanka Eastern Province Manayaweli Cove, Trincomalee N

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