Peter Weir age 14 survived a shark attack on January 14, 1944. He was surfing at Forster Beach, Australia when he had both legs bitten. One of the legs needed to be surgically amputated.

G.P. Whitley (1951), p.193, cites Daily Mirror (Sydney) 1/18/1944; V.M. Coppleson (1958), p.84