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When a Saltwater Crocodile and a Great White Shark go head to head, who do you think has the greater chances? Let’s weigh their strengths and weaknesses to find out. What will be the outcome of an epic battle between a Saltwater Crocodile and the Great White Shark? Do you guys have any guesses yet? If you have seen the film Jaws or Sharknado, you will most likely bet on the shark! But the Saltwater Crocodile is an equally dangerous predator. Saltwater Crocodiles are found in parts of India, Southeast Asia, and Australia. On the other hand, Great White Sharks are usually seen in the cool coastal regions of the United States, South Africa, and Japan. They seem to live quite far apart. Saltwater crocodiles can weigh up to 1000 pounds. They are huge in size. A full-grown saltie can measure up to 17 feet in length. They have an average lifespan of 70 years. So we know these reptiles are capable of long excursions through marine waters – but where are they going? "We assume they are traveling along the coastline to a different river system," suggests one of the researchers, University of Queensland's Craig Franklin. "[Most are] mid-sized males. Possibly they have been displaced by larger males in the river system they came from and are now looking for an alternative to inhabit and breed."

Great White Sharks also have incredibly powerful jaws lined with nearly 300 teeth. A shark’s teeth can measure up to 6.6 inches. They can crush turtle shells easily.

If we look at the number of humans killed every year by the two creatures, a Saltwater Crocodile proves to be the deadlier predator. Sharks are way behind in this case. A Great White Shark weighs five times more than a Saltwater Crocodile. A shark can weigh up to 5000 pounds, while a saltie weighs only 1000 pounds.

Even more impressively, a six- to seven-foot gator circled an oil platform roughly 40 miles off the Louisiana mainland in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005. The oil workers who spotted the seafaring beast wondered whether it was seeking a haul-out to rest. One told a biologist investigating the sighting that he'd seen an offshore alligator only once before, maybe 16 miles out in the Gulf, but none of the others had ever observed one.But what about honest-to-goodness transoceanic journeys? Most Indo-Pacific crocs probably restrict themselves to coastal cruising, and the few that end up far offshore may have simply been swept there by accident. But perhaps, rarely, certain crocs strike off on pelagic voyages to disperse, riding an ocean gyre to distant shores. "At sea, you have no visual point of reference, but we know that crocodiles can navigate using non-visual references – magnetic fields being one – so they may be able to detect when they're in a current out at sea," suggests Britton. That Indo-Pacific crocodiles are occasional mariners is well established. The historical range of this biggest living reptile is a vast ocean-dominated kingdom.” Tiger sharks – which commonly patrol coastal waterways – could pose a threat to any croc, given their large size, robust serrated teeth (which can saw through a sea-turtle shell like nobody's business), and up-for-anything predatory habits. So could, of course, the more massive great white shark, which grows to similar lengths as Indo-Pacific or Nile crocodiles and can substantially outweigh them. There are records of white sharks preying on adult American crocodiles in the Columbian Caribbean.