8 Ocean Bites Ranked. The Last One Would Crush You

Benny's new job: diver on a shark research boat. Eight ocean animals, from a bite of exactly zero to the one bite nobody has ever put a meter in. Every number is labeled: measured on a live animal, or only calculated. No made-up "19,000 PSI" from the internet. Orca or shark: who did you pick? Tell me in the comments 👇 0:00 Intro 0:28 Level 0: Blue Whale 1:12 Benny goes underwater 1:34 Level 1: Loggerhead Sea Turtle 2:24 Your guess 2:43 Level 2: Great Hammerhead 3:58 Level 3: Tiger Shark 5:01 Orca or shark? 5:18 Level 4: Sperm Whale 6:31 Level 5: Orca 7:48 Level 6: Shortfin Mako 9:02 Level 7: Great White Shark 10:14 Did you guess right? All bite forces are in pounds of force (lbf), not PSI. SOURCES • Blue whale feeding — Savoca et al. 2021, Nature • Loggerhead sea turtle — Marshall et al., bite force of loggerhead sea turtles, Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology (SICB) abstract; nesting in Florida — Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) • Great hammerhead & tiger shark — bite meter by Brocq Maxey, National Geographic (2022) • Great hammerhead with 96 stingray spines — Strong, Snelson & Gruber 1990, Copeia • Sperm whale & Zygophyseter — Lambert & Bianucci 2019; Zygophyseter bite model, Historical Biology (2021) • Orca — Daniel Hong, "The Prize Biter of Modernity? Investigating Killer Whale Bite Mechanics", MSc thesis, West Chester University (2025) • Shortfin mako — Riley Elliott, "Mako Nation", Discovery Shark Week (2020), not peer-reviewed • Great white — Wroe et al. 2008, Journal of Zoology; South Africa to Australia and back — Bonfil et al. 2005, Science • Shark bites on people — International Shark Attack File (ISAF) • Range maps — occurrence data from GBIF.org; basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors, © OpenMapTiles VIDEO (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0) Antarctic Blue Whales — Blagoj Klincharski Great hammerhead in the Bahamas — Mark Pfleghar Tiger shark in Fiji — Christian Townsend Killer whale jumping in slow motion — Ravi Komatireddy Killer whales swimming in the wild — Fair Projects Great white shark as seen from a cage — Gremly Media Cage diving with a great white shark — Vanessa Hollon Sperm whale eye — David Trescot, CC BY-SA 3.0 PHOTOS (Wikimedia Commons) Blow of a blue whale in the Arctic sea — AWeith, CC BY-SA 4.0 Blue whale, Isfjord, Svalbard — Carina Gsottbauer, CC BY-SA 4.0 Large blue whale off Southern California — Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 3.0 Blue whale — NOAA Photo Library, public domain Blue whale, baleen whale — Mike Baird, CC BY 2.0 Baleen of a gray whale — jkirkhart35, CC BY 2.0 Loggerhead sea turtle — Sylke Rohrlach, CC BY-SA 2.0 Loggerhead profile — U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain Loggerhead sea turtle — Nataša Stuper, CC BY 2.0 Turtle nests, Kennedy Space Center beach — NASA / Amber Jean Notvest, public domain Baiting great hammerhead — Albert Kok, CC BY-SA 4.0 Hammerhead shark — Marko Dimitrijevic, CC BY-SA 2.0 Tiger shark — Albert kok, CC BY-SA 3.0 Tiger shark — Oregon State University, CC BY-SA 2.0 Tiger shark — Kris Mikael Krister, CC BY 3.0 Mother and baby sperm whale — Gabriel Barathieu, CC BY-SA 2.0 Orca — Maarten Visser, CC BY-SA 2.0 Killer whales jumping — Robert Pittman, public domain Transient orcas — Rennett Stowe, CC BY 2.0 Orca breaching, Morro Bay — Mike Baird, CC BY 2.0 Killer whales hunting a seal — Callan Carpenter, CC BY-SA 4.0 Shortfin mako — Patrick Doll, CC BY-SA 3.0 Great white shark — Elias Levy, CC BY 2.0 Great white shark — Bernard DUPONT, CC BY-SA 2.0 Great white shark at Isla Guadalupe — Horizon Charters, CC BY-SA 4.0 Duiker Island seals — lumoplank, CC0 Full links: commons.wikimedia.org (file names above) Illustrations of Benny and the animals are AI-assisted artwork. #animals #sharks #biteforce