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“Amazing Experience! Very knowledgeable staff. Glad to have seen some sharks today!”– Anthony, Ethan & Tyler
09/08/2017
Location: Joubertsdam
Water Temperature: 15.3°C + 15.3°C
Depth: 8.9 + 8.5
Visibility: 3.0 + 3.0
Number of Sharks: 2 + 4
Conditions: A perfectly sunny morning, with hardly any wind or swell today
A sunrise launch this morning! A beautiful sight to witness, as we cruised to our dive site in the shallows. After only 10 minutes this morning we were visited by the large female we have been seeing over the last few days. She gave us some stunning shots going for our seal decoy, displaying some great vertical behaviour. It didn’t take long for the smaller scarred female to join us also this morning, and she was very active! All our cage divers got some great sightings of these majestic ladies on our first trip. In addition we also saw a large stingray, who was very interested in the seal decoy! After our dive experience, we went to check out the seals at Geyser rock. Many were enjoying the morning sunshine lounging on the rocks, but we also had a few cooling off in Shark Alley. The younger and less experienced seals will have to watch out over the next few days!
It seemed quite fitting too that these ladies of the bay showed up in support for Women’s Day this morning! A fabulous way to celebrate the occasion. It seems like “The girls are back in town” at the moment – And hopefully here to stay!
Well what an afternoon! We started off with a small male approaching the boat not long after we were back on anchor, followed quickly by the 3.6m female we have been seeing for the last three days. Things became awefully quite after our first cage of divers with the arrivla of a Short-tail Stingray and not much else however after a quick anchor swap and a new location we found the shark that made the trip…Scarlett!
Guests that have joined us during the months of August-September in previous years may have had the pleasure of meeting this large (4.2m) female White shark that happens to be 1 of our 10 Iconic White sharks in this area. There is a reason why, her behaviour around the boat is AMAZING, she is slow and curious, allowing our guests the chance to truly appreciate the magestic nature of these animals and dispelling the myths of constant aggression associated with these sharks.
We have been able to identify this shark since 2014, she was biopsied by the DICT team in 2015 for genetic, toxicology and to back up behavioural studies and in 2016 she was named Scarlett after she appeared at the boat sporting extensive bite wounds and scars around her head and tail, believed to be inflicted by another White shark. Today, those scars are only detectable if you look very closely, proof of the amazing healing capabilities of these animals.
A fantastci day with nice conditions and two successful trips with the addition of another White shark back into the area. Welcome back Scarlett!
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