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A valuable collection of blog posts about Shark Diving in South Africa and the world.
Week in Review- 13th December
Gansbaai Summer is here and the White sharks have been in excellent form by the beach. We are getting many juvenile Great Whites with a mix of large sharks over 4.5 meters in length. The water visibility is low at the moment with an average of 2-3 meters visibility,...
Week in Review – 22nd November
Gansbaai We have had some interesting times recently with the white shark cage diving. Some of the boats have been lucky enough to see Bronze Whaler / Copper Sharks at the bait line. There have been up to six different copper sharks at one time. Yes, you may think,...
Top ten facts that will change your perception of sharks forever
Sharks don’t really have the best reputation, do they? For centuries, they have been seen as vicious, man-eating beasts. Movies such as Jaws and Deep Blue Sea have only perpetuated this notion to a far greater degree, leaving sharks with even more of a bad reputation...
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For most people, great white shark cage diving is one of those things they always imagine being a part of but never actually getting around to doing. There are so many reasons for this which include a monetary aspect, a fear of actually taking the plunge and countless...
The Worst Shark Cage Diving Weather
Gansbaai Well due to the weather I decided to leave the blogs for a while. We have had the worst run of bad weather in the history of the Shark Cage Diving. In August the boats only managed to get out to sea for 13 days and in September 18 Days so far. This was a...
Week in Review 30: 21/07/2013 The White Shark Breaching Season
Gansbaai We had a great start to the week with an average of 15 sharks per trip for the first 3 days.. then the bad weather came in! We were then stuck on land with strong winds, cold weather and high seas. We had some very unlucky clients that came specifically to do...
Week in Review – 29-14-20th July
Gansbaai We have had a bumpy week on the sea but fortunately not bad enough to cancel trips. Even though it has been overcast most days and choppy on the water the Great White Sharks were amazing!! The visibility has been excellent all week at Dyer Island and Shark...
Week 28 – 7th – 13th July 2013
Gansbaai The week started with strong weather predictions but fortunately it did not really materialise. The sea conditions were fantastic with excellent visibility and amazing Great White Shark activity! We have also seen seals around the shark boats whilst cage...
Week in Review 27: 05/07/2013 Excellent for weather and shark activity.
Gansbaai Well this week was excellent for weather and shark activity! With exception of one bad sea day we have had excellent days out at Shark Alley with the Great White Sharks. Sunday was like a summers day with warm sunny calm conditions. The boats went to the...
Week in Review – 28/06/2013: Shark Diving Review of week 26
Gansbaai The week started off well after the recent bad weather with up to 11 Great White Sharks on a single trip. Visibility was limited due to the recent big swells and still calming swells. This was a break between the storms as the next 2 days were off the sea...
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