Shark attack, 1949-08-16 (Unprovoked)
Location: Flinders Island, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA
Time: 16h00
Activity: Swimming near shore
Victim: Robert Kay (M, age 18)
Injury: Hip lacerated
Fatal: N
Source: G.P. Whitley (1952), p.194;, citing Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 8/18/1949; V.M. Coppleson (1958), p.240; C. Black, p. 148