Shark attack, 1956-03-04 (Unprovoked)
Location: Portsea Beach, near entrance to Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
Time: 16h45
Activity: Swimming, attacked at  surf carnival
Victim: John Patrick Wishart (M, age 26)
Injury: FATAL
Fatal: Y
Species: 3.7 m [12'] shark & may have been another shark nearby
Source: V.M. Coppleson (1958), pp.110-111 & 241; J. Green, p.34; A. Sharpe, pp.112-113