In South Africa, one in five attacks by the ocean predators ends in the death but every single attack at Second Beach has proved fatal.
At all these points the concentrations of vast shoals of bait-fish attracted the ocean predators -the giant marlin and the tuna species.
His eyes, however, were hard, and the look he gave Virtanen was like the cold, calculating gaze of a deep ocean predator.
Large ocean predators, such as salmon and tuna, can migrate thousands of kilometres, crossing oceans.
When an ocean predator bites or stings its prey, it is called survival.
They can also avoid ocean predators during the high tide when the fish and burrow are underwater.
They are short-lived, and go mostly unnoticed by humans, apart from an occasional support role in a documentary about a great ocean predator.
It was covered with a dark gray blotch that made her think of some hovering ocean predator (a manta ray, of course).
The broad distribution of fossil remains in both North America and Europe suggest that it would have been an open ocean predator.
Smolt also grow the silvery scales which visually confuse ocean predators.