Shark attack, 1942-04-05 (Invalid)
Location: 300 nm from shore, West of Ceylon (Sri  Lanka), INDIAN OCEAN
Activity: H.M.S. Cornwall & H.M.S.Dorsetshire sunk by Japanese dive bombers. Officers & men in the water formed a circle with 60 of their dead in the center for 36 hours
Injury: Sharks were numerous & took corpses but made no attempts to harm the survivors.
Fatal: Y
Source: V.M. Coppleson (1962), p.218