Guest comment: “You guys and girls saved the day and my trip. Thank you for a great time!” – Mitchell
“Great day, great team!” – Megan + Tom”
“Great team and crew. many thanks!” – Michael
15/08/2018
Location: Joubertsdam
Water Temperature: 14.2°C + 14.3°C + 14.3°C
Depth: 10.1m + 9.8m + 10.8m
Visibility: 0.5m + 1.0m + 1.0m
Number of Great Whites: 2 + 1 + 1
Conditions: Clear, bright skies with no wind but a lingering, larger swell.
Three days off the sea and our team were itching to get back on the water to see what was waiting out in the bay for us! An early morning launch saw a sunset as Slashfin made it’s way out of Kleinbaai harbour, experiencing the swell that is still coming through from the past few days of storms, it was a wild start to the trip but after the shallow channel was skillfully manuvored we were on our way into the Shallows. The sharks took their time showing up this morning, however the important thing is that they did! With the first arrival in the form of a small, juvenile White shark that passed deep and the later arrival of the second shark, a large more energetic female, estimated just over 3.0m in length and one that the Marine Dynamics team identified as a new individual to the bay or atleast new sighting from our boat for this season.
Our second trip of the day was a little more difficult shark-wise. We had an excellent journey around Danger Point after launching from Gansbaai, soaking up some of that late morning warmth.As the wind had changed direction after our first trip we quickly re-anchored and got busy with trying to get a shark! While we waited we learned some interesting facts about white sharks, and then our keen divers got in the cage ready for the cage dive quiz to test their knowledge on sharks! We had some fun in the cage and right towards the end of the trip, we got a very brief glimpse of the first shark, the 2.5m male from the first trip, yet he didn’t fancy coming in close to check our divers out. Sometimes the way these sharks are!
Back out on the water for our third trip and things were off to a flying start with our guests scrambling in half on wetsuits as the small juvenile White shark from our previous two trips appearing out of no where and hitting the seal decoy, many off us catching a glimpse as gravity took over and he came back down to the water dorsal surface facing the boat. With the first group of divers taking the chilly plunge straight away into the cage, we tried our best to show our guests this exquisit animal and whilst he made a few passes he stayed deep compared to our first view of him at the beginning of the trip. Our divers, championed on, all giving the cage and South African Atlantic waters a try however the little shark did not appear again and neither did any others. Before heading back to land we made our way to the Islands to have a closer look at the Cape Fur seal colony on Geyser Rock and even encountered a few rafts of African penguin on the way out of Shark Alley.
The Short-tailed stingrays were also out and about with some glimpses of these large, graceful animals throughout the day.
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