Shark attack, 1953-02-15 (Unprovoked)
Location: Cave at Shell Harbour, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
Time: 18h00
Activity: Spearfishing
Victim: Rex Gallagher (M, age 25)
Injury: Shark tore off face mask, diver�s face, nose & chin lacerated
Fatal: N
Species: Wobbegong shark
Source: Spearfishing News, April 1953, p.5; J. Oetzel in Skin Diver Magazine, March 1965, p.17; V.M. Coppleson (1958), p.33