For starters, I'll tell you all about the great white. The one most well-known to man, thanks to a movie we know to be JAWS. But we look at the Great Whites the same way as the movie.
Name: Great White Shark (A.K.A The Great White, White Shark, White Pointer, or White Death)
Scientific Name: Carcharodon carcharias
Lenght: Between 13 and 17 feet (although some can exceed that by 3 or 4 feet)
Weight: About 5,000 pounds
Life Span: Up to 30 years
What if we take a look at them through the eyes of God or for the atheists the eyes of science? Sharks weren't created to be cold-blooded killers. They were created to keep the marine ecosystem in line. Sharks don't intentionally come after humans. They don't like the taste of us. It's most commonly a case of mistaken identity. Let's say you're a surfer, you're kind of far out in the water, and you're still paddling out. If a shark is hungry and they're looking up at you on your board, to them, you're a seal. You on your surf board is a very similar shape to they're food source of seals. However, the way they come and attack their prey is quite intriguing. All sharks have different methods. Some very similar, some very different. The Great White will dive deep into the water and come up at an incredibly steep angle (almost 90 degrees), building speed, they hurl themselves out of the water, capturing the prey in their mouths, and falling back in to finish them off. Anyway, I'm not trying to prove how vicious they are, but how docile they can be.
Great Whites aren't as much of a threat as we see them to be. I watched an episode of shark week recently and in this episode a man went into the water with a 17 foot Great White Shark and he actually got this larger female to submit to him. Any type of shark submitting to another shark is rare, but this was a shark submitting to a smaller figure. He got into the water unsure of what might happen and attracted the shark to where he was. He then put his hand on the tip of its nose (very close to the mouth), and started to carefully massage it. Next thing you see is this 17 footer turned upside down. When he gently took his hand off, the shark turned back over and let him ride its back via the fin. How incredible it must've been to be him at that time. That was such a peculiar thing to happen. This shark was what he liked to call a "player." In essence, this meant the shark was curious, but not to the point of hurting something. Curiosity doesn't always kill the cat.
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