Shark attack, 1949-04-13 (Unprovoked)
Location: Miramar Beach, Tampico, Tamaulipas, MEXICO
Activity: Bathing
Victim: male (M, age )
Injury: U.S. destroyer John W. Weeks, 6 miles offshore, demonstrating guns & bombs for Mexican officials was thought to have driven the shark into the shallows where it bit the bather before other bathers drove it away with sticks & clubs.
Fatal: N
Source: New York Herald Tribune, 4/15/1949