The Shark Bookings Blog
A valuable collection of blog posts about Shark Diving in South Africa and the world.
Ocearch Shark Tracking: Success
Meet Success, the shark working on his hunting skills. Ocearch’s tracking technology allows researchers to monitor sharks movements throughout the world’s oceans, providing valuable insight into their behavior and their range. Each shark is tagged with a tracking...
See Them, Save Them: Ocearch’s amazing conservation efforts
Welcome to the See Them, Save Them series where we will be tracking a number of great white sharks through Ocearch’s revolutionary tagging system, highlighting the importance of conservation, research and tracking. Every month we will create profiles for each tagged...
Ocearch Shark Tracking: Poseidon
Meet Poseidon, an immature Great White Shark who loves the warm waters of Mossel Bay Ocearch’s tracking technology allows researchers to monitor sharks movements throughout the world’s oceans, providing valuable insight into their behavior and their range. Each shark...
Ocearch Shark Tracking: Albertina
Meet Albertina, a female, immature Great White Shark in Mossel Bay Ocearch’s tracking technology allows researchers to monitor sharks movements throughout the world’s oceans, providing valuable insight into their behavior and their range. Each shark is tagged with a...
Ocearch Shark Tracking: Albert
Meet Albert, the Great White Shark who loves spending his summers in Gansbaai Ocearch’s tracking technology allows researchers to monitor sharks movements throughout the world’s oceans, providing valuable insight into their behavior and their range. Each shark is...
Ocearch Shark Tracking: Riley
Meet Riley, an immature Great White Shark in Mossel Bay Ocearch’s tracking technology allows researchers to monitor sharks movements throughout the world’s oceans, providing valuable insight into their behavior and their range. Each shark is tagged with a tracking...
Ocearch Shark Tracking: Helen
Meet Helen, a Great White Shark who often visits Mossel Bay Ocearch’s tracking technology allows researchers to monitor sharks movements throughout the world’s oceans, providing valuable insight into their behavior and their range. Each shark is tagged with a tracking...
Ocearch’s revolutionary conservation efforts
Shark Conservation, Research and Tracking in South Africa. Photo credit: Paul Taggart/www.ocearch.org. Shark tracking has revolutionized our understanding of sharks. The ability to follow these enormous predators as they journey through their natural habitat has...
Tonic Immobility in Sharks
What is tonic immobility Tonic immobility, also known as (TI) is an unlearned reflex action that leads to a state of paralysis that some animals can enter into involuntarily when they feel threatened and is characterised by a state of immobility. This behaviour has...
Shark Bookings Week in Review
Gansbaai After a poor run of weather at the end of May and beginning of June, fortunately the weather has improved. While there have been the odd no-sea days, the days on the water have been great. I am happy to say that all of the boats are now working exclusively...
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