Guest comment: “Worth every penny. Brilliant experience and friendly crew. Would definately do it again!” – Justin
“Very interesting and very good that the whole organisation works under Fair Trade Tourism!” – Maria
“This was amazing! I never thought i’d get the opportunity to see these amazing animals! Thank you so much!” – Sierra
15/01/2017
Location: Joubertsdam
Water Temperature: 15.6’C + 15.5’C
Depth: 11.1m + 10.7m
Visibility: 0-0.5m
Number of Sharks: 4 + 7
Conditions: Slight wind and swell.
A little bit of a later start for the team and guests at Marine Dynamics this morning with the tides restricting our launch times at the moment with our vessel Slashfin arriving on anchor in the Shallows at 9:30am and our first shark arriving to the boat just after 10:00am. This was a fesity male that appeared out of no where, made a fast attempt on the decoy and then disappeared not to be seen again this trip. However even though this male did not seem interested anymore another male appeared not to long after and stuck around for quite some time as our first and second cage as well as those on board enjoyed views of this magnificent animal. The third shark was none other than “Mini Rosie” one of the companies favourite White sharks, named after the naturally occuring white pigmentation on her dorsal fin that we refer to as “rosie”. She stuck around for the rest of the trip wowing those on board and getting nice and close so that even with the limited visibility we still had some great views. The last shark of the trip was another male, very clean, as in no markings or scars and yet again not one to stick around the boat.
The second trip of the day also had a little bit of a wait for the sharks to arrive but much like the first trip once they arrived the activity was fantastic. This trip was dominated by the males including two of our well known White sharks in the bay at the moment, “Mini Nemo” with the stunted right pectoral fin which earnt him his name and “Sellendilloh” who can be seen with a SPOT tag attached to the left side of his dorsal fin. This is a global tracking device that was deployed on this shark in April 2012 when the research team from Ocearch was in South Africa and of which more information and tracking data can be found on their website here.
