Meet the Great White Shark Great white sharks are the biggest and meanest meat eating fish in the entire ocean. They're probably one of the scariest things you can find under the water. In fact, they're one of the biggest kinds of fishes in the sea. Great white sharks are known by many different names. Sometimes they're called white pointers. Other people just call them great whites. Some people call them simply as white sharks but they're really scary name is "white death."