They are very strong swimmers who can vaults completely out of the water.
Common threshers have a countershaded body, dark blue-gray above and white underneath.
It has small jaws, but can use its tail to corral and even kill fish. It is a very strong swimmer and can even leap out of the water. It lives in open tropical and temperate waters, including the eastern and western Atlantic, the central Pacific, and the Indo-west Pacific. The Common Thresher Shark is not aggressive, but can be provoked. The thresher's large tail can injure divers.