Shark attack, Reported 25-Oct-1939 (Unprovoked)
Location: Near Restoration Rock off Portland Roads , Queensland, AUSTRALIA
Activity: Free diving for trochus shell, swimming to dinghy
Victim: Small Cobbe (M, age 27)
Injury: Both thighs were lacerated, recovered at Thursday Island hospital
Fatal: N
Species: Tiger shark, 4.3 m [14'], 3 tooth fragments retrieved from his wounds
Source: G.P. Whitley, p. 20; V.M. Coppleson  (1958), p. 99