The oceanic whitetip shark, a species heavily implicated in the USS Indianapolis attacks, is a formidable open-water predator. With streamlined bodies, powerful tail fins and rows of razor-sharp ...

oceanic whitetip sharks have been involved in three fatal attacks on humans, but many more may have came during the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in World War II, where survivors faced shark ...

In October 2020 a 12-year-old Ukrainian boy on holiday in Egypt and his tour guide lost limbs after an attack by an oceanic whitetip shark. They tend to dominate feeding frenzies and are known ...

However, the most common species behind shark bites are great whites, tiger and bull sharks. Less commonly, shortfin mako and oceanic whitetip sharks have also been involved in fatal attacks.

Deadly shark attacks are a near-yearly occurrence in ... which is believed to have been either a Mako or a Oceanic whitetip shark, but no one jumped in to help her. Somehow she made it ashore ...

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 ...

This incident follows another deadly shark attack near Hurghada a year earlier ... believed to be either a Mako or Oceanic whitetip, but no one attempted to help her. Somehow, Sauer managed ...