'It's Australia Day in Sydney and a sailing party stops into Sugarloaf Bay. As they forage for a lunchtime picnic, their holiday celebrations come to a sudden, terrible end.'
Australia Day tells the story of the 1963 shark attack on Sydney actress Marcia Hathaway in Middle Harbour
Shark Files is an independent podcast telling the true stories of when shark and human lives collide - shark attacks, shipwrecks, miraculous rescues, recovery from PTSD, ecological breakdown, military experiments, and much, much more. For more information on today's episode, more episodes from Season 1, and other sharky content, visit www.thesharkfiles.com