There are many myths about the great white shark and one of them is that they always stay close to the coast. When people tagged the sharks they found found something very different. They actualy travel from the California coast to Hawaii and that is just one of their migrations. This California to Hawaii migration is 2467 miles long. They cover atleast 42 miles per day says The Daily Telegraph of London.
A female great white shark tagged in waters off South Africa has completed the first known across ocean trip for an individual shark, traveling farther than any other shark known, more than 12,400 miles to the coast of Australia and back again, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). This shark also complited this migration in under 9 months. She also made the record for the fastest return migration of any know marine animal
Another myth is that the great white shark eats its pray as soon as it bites it. We see this in movies and TV shows but the truth is different. They actually bite their prey and then let go, wait for their prey to die, then eat it. If a human is bitten and the shark lets go, then this could be an opportunity for rescue. This proves the saying “Never swim alone.”
There are many more things still to learn about the great white shark. We may also find that many things that we thought were fact about the great white shark, are actualy myth.