Daily Blog 17 January 2016 (Trip 1) | Shark Diving South Africa

17/01/2016

Location: Joubertsdam
Water Temperature: 12.9’C
Depth: Approx. 10.0m
Visibility: 0.5m – 1.5m
Number of Sharks: 2
Conditions: Clear skies with some easterly winds causing some chop.

We have some FINtastic news…the sharks have returned! It has been 12 days since Slashfin and her crew sighted a White shark. Many theories as to where and why they had gone circulated (you can see an article written by DICT’s Alison Towner on factors that could have been responsible for the lack of sharks in the bay here). During those 12 days we chose not to take out visitor groups out as we felt we could not give the White shark experience we usually strive for, however we used that time to do what we like to call shark reconnaissance trips, in the hopes of seeing a shark or atleast collecting data that might help us piece together what had happened. The crew and our International Marine Volunteers took to the water every second day to try our luck and today proved to be that lucky day! The day started off like many of the others had, an early morning and a long wait, as we approached two and a half hours on the water a familiar shadow was spotted cruising under our cage, cries of shark were heard all over the boat, the Great Whites are back! The morning ended with two White sharks being sighted from the shark boat and one White shark cruising along the Shallows spotted from Dream Catcher, our sister company, Dyer Island Cruises vessel. The sharks all appear to be juvenile, the two spotted from the shark boat look to be individuals that we have seen in the last month around the area. Fingers and fins crossed that the sharks stick around. Stay tuned to our blogs and facebook page for more updates on the White sharks of Gansbaai…

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