Great white shark News

Gansbaai - A new bride came within a whisker of losing her husband after only one day of marriage. A group of friends were shark diving off the coast of South Africa when they had an uncomfortably close encounter with a great white shark.

Honolulu - Footage shows a shark conservationist Ocean Ramsey swim up to a massive great white shark in the waters of Hawaii to caress the creature and even grab hold of its fin to hitch a free ride.

A survey of different sharks and the relative strength of their bite has shown the Bull Shark to have the hardest bite, stronger than even the mighty Great White.

Little Compton - When fisherman Gary Severa first spotted the shark Saturday morning, he thought it was driftwood; getting a little closer, his heart started to race when he realized that this driftwood had razor sharp teeth and eyes –– that stared back at him.

Like a scene out of the movie 'Jaws' a kayaker was chased by a Great White shark just off a beach at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Shark attacks on humans are rare, and often occur when sharks mistake a surfboard for the outline of a prey item. Similarly, in the following attack the kayak may have resembled something edible:

Honolulu - A group of fisherman in Hawaii have an amazing story to tell after a day of fishing for marlin five miles off the coast of Yokohama Bay ended with a Great White shark circling their boat for nearly an hour looking for its next meal.

Venice - A group of visitors to Venice Beach, California were greeted with an unexpected sight when they spotted a baby great white shark wash up close to the beach in need of rescue.

Halifax - The remnants of a great white shark caught in the Bay of Fundy off the coast of Nova Scotia will soon find a permanent home in the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History.

A group of marine researchers in South Africa wanted to be close to sharks, but not quite as close as they got when a three-metre long great white jumped into a boat with them on Monday.