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19/04/2015
Location: Joubertsdam
Water Temperature: 12.6’C + 12.6’C
Depth: 8.5m + 10.4m
Visibility: 2.0m + 2.0m
Number of Sharks: 13 + 21
Conditions: Calm, flat seas and sunny skies.
We launched from Gansbaai harbour again this morning due to low tides. Once around Danger Point and into the shallows we had a wonderful morning. The sharks were ready to go as soon as we arrived with an impressive 3.8m male first to be seen. We are seeing a lot of familiar fins around at the moment, with Ingrid, Malcolm X, Rosie, Vanessa, Maureen, Dolphin Fin, Pieter and Fishing Line Shark still present and active in the bay and visiting the boat on a regular basis including today. Its always great to have previously identifiable sharks back and active. The second trip of the day consisted of the Primo research team and its students. This trip was fantastic and some great data was collected with an amazing number of sharks visiting the boat and some awe inspiring behaviour present. We were graced by the presence of one of our previously acoustic tagged sharks, Rosie. Something was different about Rosie today, we have not seen her in close to 2 weeks and when she showed up today she had some extensive damage to the side of her head, most likely inflicted by boat propellers. It appears she has had a run-in with a moving vessel, thankfully these animals are very resilient as seen in some of our previous studies on wound healing in the White Shark as can be read here, hopefully we will see her make a full recovery in the near future. Also present at the boat today was a male individual we also spotted yesterday with damage to the right eye. It looks as if not only it is damage physically but may be effecting the function of that eye as this shark seems to be leading more with the left side, yet again we hope to monitor this individual. A highly entertaining, successful and interesting day out on the water…
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