I just put my head in my hands and started praying that God wouldn’t take my life and I would live,” Rileigh Decker, 20, said through tears from her hospital bed. “It was very scary.” ...

The ocean holds many bizarre deep-sea monsters. As you dive 140 meters underwater, you might see a megamouth shark. Sure, they look scary, but those 50 rows of teeth are for filtering krill.

Where they live: In every ocean around the globe ... Long portrayed in pop culture as scary beasts, real sharks are no Hollywood monsters. Sharks are a diverse group of mostly predatory fish.