Shark attack, 1977-03-13 (Sea Disaster)
Location: Near Moreton Island in Moreton Bay, Queensland, AUSTRALIA
Activity: Their 9 m launch was run down by a 25,000-ton Japanese freighter  on the night of 3-11-1977 & they drifted, clinging to an icebox for 2 days
Victim: Verdon Harrison (M, age 32)
Injury: His feet were bitten by sharks, but he was rescued by a charter boat that arrived on the scene just an hour and 15 minutes after the sharks first appeared, too late to save the lives of Hayes and Beaver
Fatal: N
Source: Sunday Mail (QLD), 10/11/1992, p.109; A. Sharpe, pp.103-104