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An Unprovoked Attack by a Blue Shark Prionace glauca (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhinidae) on a Spear Fisherman in Terceira Island, Azores, Northeast Atlantic 

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1 An Unprovoked Attack by a Blue Shark Prionace glauca (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhinidae) on a Spear Fisherman in Terceira Island, Azores, Northeast Atlantic  João Pedro Barreiros, Otto B.F. Gadig, Vidal Haddad  Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages (September 2014) DOI: /j.wem Copyright © 2014 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 An adult blue shark Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758), showing (A) its main body diagnostic features, and (B) the right anterolateral view of the jaws of a subadult specimen (B). Photographs by H. Wes Pratt (A) and Otto B. F. Gadig (B). Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  , DOI: ( /j.wem ) Copyright © 2014 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

3 Figure 2 The victim’s flipper showing the tooth marks made by the attack of a 2.1 m total length blue shark, Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal. Photograph by João Pedro Barreiros. Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  , DOI: ( /j.wem ) Copyright © 2014 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions


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