Shark attack, 1959-07-03 (Sea Disaster)
Location: Off Cristobal, 200 miles northeast of the entrance to the Panama Canal, PANAMA, CARIBBEAN SEA
Activity: Columbian petrol barge Rio Atrato burned and sank
Victim: Teresea Britton (on raft) & a man (on floating debris) (, age 27)
Injury: FATAL X 2, 8 others missing. Survivors fought off sharks & sharks seen biting 2 of the dead. The 39 survivors were rescued by the German freighter Essen
Fatal: Y
Source: Cambridge Daily News, 7/4/1959; V. M. Coppleson (1962), p. 259