Daily Blog 17 March 2019 | White Shark Diving Gansbaai

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17/03/2019

Location: Joubertsdam 

Water Temperature: 13.2°C + 12.9°C

Depth: 7.2m + 8.5

Visibility: 2.5m + 2m

Conditions: Cloudy and a little drizzle.

The day started of a bit rainy with a thick layer of clouds overhead. However, this did not deter us from going out to sea. Our divers climbed into their wetsuits on land, and soon we headed out to our divesite in The Shallows. The cage went into the water and soon we saw a glimmer of a Copper shark passing by. Luckily we had a few white shark come by the boat, even seeing a glimmer of Mini-Nemo. Later a few Copper sharks visited us again, letting all our guests see the beautiful diversity of these animals. While it was a slighly chilly day out at sea, the sharks made for an amazing day out at sea.

For our second trip, we had a total of two great white sharks. We started the trip off with Clover the 3.8m tagged shark. She gave our divers a great display of her power and was more than willing to show off her new jewellery! Our first group of divers were very happy to see her, and our next group was treated to a smaller but just as exciting great white. At just over 2m she is small, yet still feisty, showing off some true power still at this size, and very curious in the decoy line! We had a couple of copper sharks on this trip too, which was an added bonus, with our trip coming to an end we had a very happy group of divers having witnessed these magnificent animals in their natural habitat. 

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