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quest of Nagoya Maritime Safety Office. The regulator and the harness, which were discovered about one month later at the attack site, were also sent to the author for de tailed inspection. The present paper reports the results of the investigation of the wet suit and diving gears in the Aichi case, disscusses the identity of the attacking shark species, and also records other cases supplemental to the Japanese shark attack list.1) A 47 year old professional diver, Mr. Shintaro Hara, was engaged in fishing for the bivalve Panopea japonica (Japanese name: Namigai, Shiro-mirugai) on April 9, 1995 off the west end of Atsumi Peninsula in Aichi Prefecture. He wore SCUBA and a black wet suit, and carried a lamp and a nozzle of a water-jet hose for digging the shell from sand bottom. His wife was tendering on the boat above him, supporting her husband's underwater work. Accord ing to interviews, at first the position of bubbles from the diver began to move around unusually on one side of the tendering boat, and then the bloody water came up with the bubbles. The shark soon came up to the surface with the victim in the jaws, shook its head violently, severing the body on the right side, and disappeared. The body was left afloat and it was pulled aboard the boat by colleagues. The air tank and weight belt were not on the victim's body. Mr. Hara was transported immediately to the hospital, but apparently he had been killed instantly. An autopsy was performed by Mr. Seiji Itoh, a coroner of Gamagouri Maritime Safety Office, and he reported that the right half of the pectoral region, including the right arm, was severed and missing from the shoulder to the waist, and the detail results of the autopsy were sent to the author for identification of the attacking shark species. The victim wore black inner and outer rubber wet suits. The right side of the trunk and the right arm of the inner and outer jackets were missing below the base of the neck and the upper right corner of the pants was also cut away (Fig. IA). Many tooth marks were found along the cut margin of the suit (white dots in Fig. 1A). Fine notches were discovered along the cut margin of the suit, and fine streaks were left on the sectioned surfaces (Fig. IC). The tooth marks were confined on the right half of the jacket Fig. 1. Diving gears used by the victim in Aichi case. A, wet suits (left: inner suit, right: outer suit), white dots show tooth marks; B, harness; C, enlargement of a tooth mark on wet suit; D, sectioned surface of air hose.

A Fatal Shark Attack in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, with Other Confirmed Attack Cases in Japanese Waters