How do big and slow animals survive in open water when it seemed easy for a shark to just take a bite?

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When I would be a shark and came across a whale, no matter its size, I would bite off its fins and start eating. Same with a big ray. How do those animals survive so long anyway?

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A shark has to actually find these big creatures.

They are huge, but the world ocean is absolutely vast, it dwarfs the total land space on Earth by a vast amount. And out in the open ocean past the shallows its basically a desert as far as how much life exists because the nutrients to drive the food web out there are severely reduced compared to land and shallow sea. Most of the entire southern hemisphere is deep ocean.

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