Today in my shark series, I am going to talk about the Great white shark. 

Nothing can be more scary than swiming in the ocean and seeing a Great white swiming in the water with you. Most Great whites  grow to be 15-17 feet long. There have been reports of great whites that are over 25ft! A Great white's diet consists of  rays, tuna, smaller sharks, sea turtles, sea lions, sea otters, and seals. A great white likes to ambush its prey. Out of all the sharks the great white is the most known and the shark that is feared the most. great white sharks have been known to attack humans. Usally a shark will see a human, mistake him for a seal and take a bite out of him. the shark then relizes his mistake and swims away. Some sharks have been known to become man eaters, such as the Jersey shore attacks of 1916 this was a time when a shark terrorized a small new jersey town. It was these attacks that inspired the book jaws. and the book Jaws later inspired the well known movie. The shark in the Jersey shore attacks was thought to be a great white. For more on the Jersey shore attacks go to the link in this entry. More sharks are coming soon!

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