This viscous creature is one of the most amazing in the ocean.

The Great White Shark can be, 5 meters long and weigh up to 2,450 pounds, the females are generally larger than the males. The normal maximum size of a great white is 6 meters and 4,200 pounds.  This animal is arguably the world’s largest known predatory fish. The great white sharks teeth are sharp but there jaws are not strong. All sharks can smell blood from five miles away. Great white Sharks’ reputation as ferocious predators is well earned, yet they are not (as was once believed) indiscriminate “eating machine”. They hunt using an “ambush” technique, taking their prey by surprise from below. Great white sharks are carnivorous, and primarily eat fish (including rays, tuna, and smaller sharks), dolphins, porpoises, whale carcasses and pinniped such as seals, fur seals and sea lions and sometimes sea turtles. Sea otters and penguins are attacked at times although rarely, if ever, eaten. Great whites have also been known to eat objects that they are unable to digest. For example (fish nets parts of medal and plants under the sea.)

Great white Sharks live in almost all coastal and offshore waters. Great white sharks can also be found in tropical waters. This had disproved traditional theories of white sharks being coastal territorial predators. Shark cage-diving is when a group of tourists or those who wish to study the sharks up close are lowered into the water beside a boat, protected by a steel cage. Practices have raised the fear that sharks may be becoming more accustomed to people in their environment and beginning to associate human activity with food – a potentially dangerous situation.

The latest research suggests that the great white shark is more closely related to the mako shark than to the megalodon shark. As many scientists would place the megalodon and White Shark as distant relatives – sharing the family Lamnidae but no closer relationship. The Great White is classified as a mackerel (Lamnidae) shark.