Benoît Girodeau, aka Natty Gong, got the experience of lifetime when two sperm whales saved him from a white tip shark.

Shortly after midnight on July 30, 1945, toward the end of World War II, two Japanese torpedoes sunk the USS […] ...

HEARTSTOPPING footage shows the moment two giant whales move in to protect a diver from a bloodthirsty shark. Benoît Girodeau was diving off the coast of Mauritius when he was approached by an ...

It is believed the predators were made up of oceanic whitetip sharks and possibly ... It remains the deadliest shark attack in human history. Even after their rescue, the survivors faced another ...

In a dramatic turn of events, two sperm whales rescued a diver, Benoît Girodeau, from an oceanic whitetip shark attack off ...

The species is known to attack shipwreck survivors and are suspected to be responsible for numerous unrecorded human shark-related ... surround me.' The oceanic whitetip, which can grow ...

Oceanic whitetip sharks are the boldest ... A sure sign of a free meal, the shark can steal the fish right off the line! But populations of oceanic whitetips are crashing worldwide.

The oceanic whitetip shark has suffered population declines of up to 88 percent in the Atlantic. Populations of the giant manta ray, which has a wingspan of up to 29 feet, have plummeted by up to 95 ...

Using photographic evidence, scientists were able to ascertain that the same oceanic whitetip shark carried out all the attacks, Burgess said. The shark in question had followed a boat from New ...

Found on Indo-Pacific coral reefs, the whitetip reef shark occurs as far west as South Africa and as far east as Central America. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

Oceanic whitetip sharks are rare but are one of ... white-tips were largely responsible for one of the deadliest shark attacks in history when the USS Indianapolis sunk in the Pacific in 1945 ...

Even fish that are tucked tightly into cracks and crevices in the coral are a target, as the shark’s slender body allows it to squeeze into impossibly small holes. Other members of the pack will ...