ACTIVITY: Fishing
CASE: GSAF 1914.06.13
DATE: Saturday June 13, 1914
LOCATION: The incident took place in the
Adriatic Sea between St. Stjepan and Budva,
Montenegro.
BOAT: Fishing boat #5 from St. Stjepan
OCCUPANTS: Ivan Angjus & Stevo Kentera,
members of a fishing cooperative.
BACKGROUND
MOON PHASE: New Moon, June 10, 1914
ENVIRONMENT: Montenegro fought for its
independence from Turkey for more than 600
years. Then, in 1912, Montenegro joined with
Serbia, Greece and Bulgaria in a war with Turkey,
won independence, and thus became a close ally
of Serbia. Just 18 days after this incident, on June
28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
was assassinated by a Serbian anarchist. The
assassination escalated into a confrontation
between rival blocs of Great European Powers:
the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Germany on
one side and France, Russia and Great Britain on the other. A month after the
assassination, Austria declared war on Serbia. On August 7, 1914, Montenegro declared
war on Austria, and on Germany on August 9, 1914. The conflict, known as World War I
lasted until November 11, 1918. More than nine million combatants and seven million
civilians died as a result of the war, making it one of the deadliest conflicts in history.
TIME: 07h00
NARRATIVE: While on their way from St. Stjepan (now called Sveti Stefan) to Budva, a
shark crashed into the fishing boat. First, the shark bit Kentera's paddle and it hit his
forearm. Then shark raised his head and bit the stern of the boat, leaving teeth marks.
Panicked, Angjus threw his paddle and jumped to the other side of the boat. Shark took a
second bite at the paddle, then swam away.
INJURY: No injury.
SPECIES: Not identified. Deep triangular teeth impressions were found on the hard
beechwood paddle. By the size of teeth marks it was believed they were made by a very
large shark.
SOURCES: Jutarnji List, June 20, 1914; Novosti, June 23, 1914
CASE INVESTIGATOR: Chris Moore, GSAF
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Budva, 1900
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Translated text
Shark attacked fishing boat.
Report from Budva on 13th of this month: this
morning around 7am fishing boat #5 from St.
Stjepan came to the port with 2 members of
fishing cooperative, Ivan Angjus and Stevo
Kentera, transporting fish to Budva. They were
terrified because on their journey from St. Stjepan
to Budva a shark crashed into their boat. First it
bite Kentera's paddle and throw it away so he got
hit by it to his forearm. Then shark raised his
head, took a bite of a stern and left teeth marks.
Second fisherman, Angjus, in panic threw his
paddle and jumped to the other side of the boat.
Shark took a second bite at the paddle and
disappeared in the sea.
Inhabitants of Budva gathered in the port to see
bitten paddle. Deep triangular teeth impressions
were found on hard beech wood paddle. By the
size of teeth marks we can surely say it was a
very large specimen.
Port authority warn everybody to take care while
swimming and informed all Boka (kotorska) to be
June 20th, 1914
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Translated text
Shark attacked fishing boat. They report from Budva on 13th of
this month between St. Stjepan and Budva a shark attacked a
fishing boat. Bit the paddle twice taking off a piece of it and then
disappeared into the sea. Fishermen terrified with the appearance
of this unwanted guest jumped to the opposite side of the boat.
On the paddle marks of triangular and saw like teeth are visible.
June 23rd 1914.
June 23, 1914
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