The 5 Most Brutal Shark Attacks of All Time

Everyone loves Shark Week.

But nobody really wants to see a shark THISCLOSEUP.

That’s because sharks are absolutely brutal.

Here are the 5 worst shark attacks of all time.

5. Barry Wilson (1952)

Barry Wilson, a 17-year-old musician, was swimming with a friend off the coast of Pacific Grove.

Suddenly, Wilson was grabbed from below. Lots of people on the beach saw him shaken from side to side. The shark then tossed him up in the air and then pulled him under the surface.

Wilson appeared again, and a group of young men swam out to help him and actually managed to fend off the shark. But it was too late.

Wilson bled to death from the bites to his legs and backside before they managed to get him to land.

4. Randall Fry (2004)

"I heard a noise, like 'whoosh,' like a submarine, like a boat going by fast. It was a shark."

In Mendocino, California, Cliff Zimmerman witnessed the shark attack on his friend Randall Fry, and this is what he saw.

"I knew it was a shark. It almost brushed me. I saw its dorsal fin. I don't know what kind it was; all I know is, it was big. Big. It was big enough to kill."

After the shark attacked Fry, the water filled with blood.

"It was massive," said Zimmerman. "I was yelling and yelling, but I knew from the amount of blood that it was fatal. He came in for the kill."

3. Robert Pamperin (1959)

Robert Pamperin went diving off La Jolla Cove and was never seen again.

He was swallowed whole by a massive shark.

Pamperin’s friend Gerald Lehrer said the shark was “so big it looked like a killer whale.”

Not one shred of the victim was found that day by rescuers that went searching for him. A few days after the attack, a monogramed swim fin belonging to Pamperin washed ashore on La Jolla Shores beach with what looked like shark teeth marks in it.

2. Ian Redmond (2011)

Redmond, 30, was snorkeling off Anse Lazio beach in the northwest of Praslin Island, Seychelles. That’s in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

He was on his honeymoon.

"All of the sudden, I heard 'Help!' and I thought at first he was sneezing," said his widowed bride Gemma Houghton. "It was the most awful scream, and I can still hear it when I close my eyes. He's never screamed like that before because he's such a strong man, such a strong man, so brave."

Redmond was brought to the shore by a speedboat after being bit by a shark.

"He looked me in the eyes and said, 'Alright,'" she said. "I could see a mixture in his eyes of fear and a realization, a relief that he had seen me, that I was there. I think I told him I loved him very much. I hope I did."

Redmond then died in a hospital from blood loss.

1. Rodney Fox (1963)

Fox was an Australian filmmaker, and he invented the Shark Cage to capture underwater footage of a Great White.

During the 1963 South Australia Spearfishing Championship at Aldinga Beach, Fox was attacked by a great white shark.

He was badly bitten around the chest and arm, his abdomen was fully exposed and all his ribs were broken on his left hand side.

You want all the gory details? Fox suffered a punctured diaphragm, had his lung ripped open, his scapula was pierced, his spleen and artery were exposed, and the tendons, fingers, and thumb in his right hand were all cut.

But Rodney survived.

With 462 stitches, Rodney Fox somehow survived.

To this day he has part of a shark tooth embedded in his wrist.

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