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Great white sharks can swim at speeds of 25 km/h (16 mph) [9] for short bursts and to depths of 1,200 m (3,900 ft). [10] The great white shark is arguably the world's largest-known extant macropredatory fish, and is one of the primary predators of marine mammals, such as pinnipeds and dolphins.
Air Jaws is a series of fifteen TV specials about great white sharks that have aired on Discovery Channel's Shark Week. The specials are mainly filmed in the Indian Ocean off the coast of South Africa, many on Seal Island in False Bay, near Cape Town, or in Mossel Bay. All fifteen specials were produced and directed by Jeff Kurr.
Carcharodon (meaning "jagged/sharp tooth") [2] is a genus of sharks within the family Lamnidae, colloquially called the "white sharks." The only extant member is the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). Extinct species include C. hubbelli and C. hastalis. [3]
The World Wildlife Fund reports the world’s great white shark population is at vulnerable status. The largest known predatory fish in the world, great white sharks can weigh upwards of 4,000 to ...
Shark research is hard to get funding for, in part, because sharks aren’t a commercial species. Yet the irony is that they affect commercial species, namely fish populations.
Mackerel sharks, also called white sharks, are large, fast-swimming sharks, found in oceans worldwide. They include the great white, the mako, porbeagle shark, and salmon shark. Mackerel sharks have pointed snouts, spindle-shaped bodies, and gigantic gill openings. The first dorsal fin is large, high, stiff and angular or somewhat rounded.
Even though great white sharks aren’t known to hunt people, attacks do happen. Four of the 10 fatal attacks in 2023 were done by great white sharks (one in California and three in Australia.)
Select examples include the bull shark, tiger shark, great white shark, mako sharks, thresher sharks, and hammerhead sharks. Sharks are caught by humans for shark meat or shark fin soup. Many shark populations are threatened by human activities. Since 1970, shark populations have been reduced by 71%, mostly from overfishing. [7]