2. Great White Sharks
Sharks are just plain terrifying. Jaws didn’t help their image, either. For anyone swimming in Australia’s oceans, the possibility of a shark encounter is lurking somewhere in their mind.
Australia is home to 180 shark species, the widest variety of sharks in the world. Most fearsome of all is the great white, which favors the cooler ocean temps off Australia’s southern coast. Reaching up to 2,400 pounds, great whites are the largest predatory fish on the planet. In other words, we have a right to be scared.