Guest Comments:
“Great experience, never seen a shark before and they are absolutely amazing!” ~ Gonzalo & Gray
“Excellent experience all around!” ~ Bob & Betty
“Thank you for making this an amazing honeymoon experience. This has been a bucket list experience!” ~ Linh & Jim
04/03/2019
Location: Joubertsdam
Water Temperature: 19.2°C + 19.1°C
Depth: 9.5m + 8.8m
Visibility: 2m + 1.5m
Conditions: Rain to start with but clearing in the afternoon with a gentle swell
We headed out to the shallows early this morning in search of sharks! As we approached our anchor site we saw the warm temperature which reassured our early divers! The copper sharks were also in full force this morning, with stunning activity throughout the trip. Our first cage got to see some superb sharks underwater, with the visibility pretty good this morning. As our second group got in the rain started, but that did not deter us as we continued to see some wonderful activity from the sharks. With our divers all happy and a tad wet, we headed into the harbour and back to the white house for some well deserved soup and some warmth!
As our guests arrived at the Great White House, little showers fell from the sky. We decided to quickly get everyone in their wetsuits on shore, after which we would make our way down to the harbour. Once we arrived at our dive site, the crew quickly attached the cage to the vessel, and we waited for our first visitors to arrive. Surprisingly it wasn’t a shark that arrived, but a Short-tailed stingray that arrived from the deep. Our guests were amazed by the size of this creature, and soon she was joined by several Copper sharks as well. As our guests marvelled at the animals, the Short-tailed stingray was visited by a larger friend, which was a lot lighter in colour. Suddenly the Copper sharks disappeared, leaving us with only the stingrays, but then our skipper uttered the words we all wanted to hear: “Great White!”. A large White shark appeared and the excitement on board reached new heights. The large female came by again and again. Our biologists on board took lots of photos and comparing the dorsal fin to the large amount we have in the database, we recognised her as a shark we saw last year, also seen around this time of the year. She was called White and Bite, and we hope she’ll hang around in the area for a long time.
