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The whitetip reef shark (Triaenodon obesus) is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae, and the only member of its genus.A small shark that does not usually exceed 1.6 m (5.2 ft) in length, this species is easily recognizable by its slender body and short but broad head, as well as tubular skin flaps beside the nostrils, oval eyes with vertical pupils, and white-tipped dorsal ...
Oceanic whitetip shark swimming near a diver in the Red Sea. Oceanographic researcher Jacques Cousteau described the oceanic whitetip as "the most dangerous of all sharks". [21] Author and big-game fisherman Ernest Hemingway depicted them as aggressive opportunists that attacked the catch of fishermen in The Old Man and the Sea. [22]
Most of the oceanic whitetip shark's attacks have not been recorded, [7] unlike the other three species mentioned above. Famed oceanographic researcher Jacques Cousteau described the oceanic whitetip as "the most dangerous of all sharks". [57] Watson and the Shark by J.S. Copley, based on the attack on Brook Watson in Havana Harbor in 1749
"Whitetip reef sharks are a great example: When we get in the water with those species, they come right over to us and investigate us even though they've seen us hundreds of times."
The shark was estimated to be 17–19 feet (5.2–5.8 m) feet long. William Covert, 25: September 13, 1995: Bull shark: A scuba diver, Covert was presumed to have been killed by a 10–12-foot (3.0–3.7 m) bull shark near Alligator Reef off Islamorada, Monroe County, Florida. His body was never recovered. James Willie Tellasmon, 9: November 21 ...
The 2010 Sharm El Sheikh shark attacks were a series of attacks by sharks on swimmers off the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.On 1 December 2010, three Russians and one Ukrainian were seriously injured within minutes of each other, and, on 5 December 2010, a German woman was killed when she was attacked while wading and snorkeling in the shallows close to the shoreline.
Researchers have discovered evidence pointing to the first known case of a porbeagle shark — which can grow up to 12 feet long and 500 pounds — being killed by a large shark predator.
Individual silvertip sharks behave very aggressively towards one another, and many are heavily scarred. They are also reported to dominate Galapagos sharks (C. galapagensis) and blacktip sharks (C. limbatus) of equal size when competing for food. [2] This shark sometimes forms mixed-species aggregations with grey reef sharks.