Shark attack, 1957-05-11 (Unprovoked)
Location: Tea Gardens, north of Newcastle, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA
Time: 12h00
Activity: Competing in spearfishing championship & towing dead fish
Victim: Leonard Higgins (M, age 28)
Injury: Thigh bitten & few lacerations on abdomen & buttock
Fatal: N
Species: 4.6 m [15'] shark
Source: V.M. Coppleson (1958), p.175