Shark attack, 1949-05-16 (Unprovoked)
Location: Broome, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
Activity: Bathing
Victim: Mary Passaris (F, age 22)
Injury: Left arm severed above elbow, recovered 5 days afterwards from shark�s gut
Fatal: N
Species: Whaler shark, 2.7 m [9'], 350- to 450-lb  identified by G.P. Whitley
Source: V.M. Coppleson (1958), pp.107 & 241; G.P. Whitley (1951), pp.186-188; A. Sharpe, pp.131-132