One of the many erroneous informations about sharks is the so called "sneak attack." A relic from the early days of shark research, where the experts didn't swim with sharks yet in order to understand them since they basically shared the fear of the general public. Due to that their mostly theortical ideas of how bites manifest themselves, was pure nonsense.

Using the term "great" hammerhead implies that there is also a "lesser" hammerhead. Of course there is no such trivial name thus we should avoid adjectives like "great," "small" etc. when creating a trivial name since that implies that the opposite must be there as well. The scientific term for the "great hammerhead" is Spyrna mokarran thus it seems simple (or logical) to switch from "great hammerhead" to a more unique trivial name like "Mokarran." This species is considered dangerous which can't be supported through the different data bases as e.g., www.sharkvictimnetwork.org. Likewise, other attributes are not true as well.

They are the fastest swimming sharks: makos. Everything about them deserves the label "superlative." This does not just refer to their speed–and our nickname for them–but also to their hunting strategies, or particular anatomical features. Beside being one of the top species in commercial high sea fisheries, the knowledge about their behavior around humans is pretty much unknown.