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13/06/2016
Location: Geldsteen
Water Temperature: 15.5’C
Depth: 9.5m
Visibility: 5.0m
Number of Sharks: 9
Conditions: Relatively flat seas with an increasing North-West wind.
Our one nd only trip for the day launched and made our way out to the Geldsteen, flanked by our flying guards, the Sub-Antartic Skua! Once on anchor our first shark arrived moments after everyone was suited up and ready to go. The first arrival was a large male, who took a surprise approach on the decoy, circled the cage and then moved on, but no worries minutes later our second and third shark arrived, both large females that the crew of Slashfin are familiar with as one has a slash injury to the trailing edge of her dorsal fin the other white scarring just in front of the dorsal fin. Yet again these sharks did not stick around but this is when the smaller White sharks appeared and these were happy to keep coming by the cage, at one point a juvenile shark spent close to five minutes going back and forward across the front of the cage making some brilliant movements including leaping out of the water. The last shark to show up for the day was a small juvenile with a damaged right pectoral fin and hook and fishing line trailing from the left side of its’ jaw, a regular around the boat in recent weeks, we have not seen it over the last few days so welcome back little one! A Short-tailed Stingray also made its presence known, coming up for a quick investigation of the bait and decoy lines every now and again. A lovely morning spent out on the water with the White sharks!
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