Shark attack, 1942-10-12 (Sea Disaster)
Location: Cape Esperance (near Savo Islands), Makora-Ulawa Province, SOLOMON ISLANDS
Activity: His ship, the US destroyer Duncan DD 485, had been  sunk by crossfire from Japanese warships. He was wearing a kapok lifejacket & using 2 aluminum powder tins for floatation  
Victim: Lieutenant Commander Herbert Richard Kabat (M, age 25)
Injury: Foot, hand, elbow & calf lacerated & abraded, thigh gashed
Fatal: N
Source: W. L. Jones, M.D.; Saturday Evening Post; V.M. Coppleson (1958),  p.199