Guest comment: “It was great!” – Nadeem
“Fantastic time, great team. Loved seeing the seals.” – John & Paula
“Awesome crew. Everyone was very smart and friendly!” – Anahita, Hasedar & Sanaya
28/04/2017
Location: Joubertsdam
Water Temperature: 11.7°C + 13.7’C
Depth: 8.2m + 9.0m
Visibility: 4 m + 3.0m
Number of Sharks: 1 + 2
Conditions: partly cloudy and flat seas
We launched just after the sunrise and were heading straight towards our dive site. On the way we were lucky and spotted a Bryde’s whale. After having a look at the whale we continued our way to the Jubertsdam. After we dropped anchor and got ready for the dive we were waiting around an hour for a shark. How lucky are we! The shark stayed around for a little while before it disappeared again. While waiting for the shark to return the mullets around the boat went crazy and swam fast away, in that moment we saw a cape fur seal coming up trying to catch these little fish. Unfortunatly we haven’t seen the shark again, but before heading back to the harbour we took course towards Shark Alley and Dyer Island. Arrived after about a ten minute drive we had a look at the cape fur seal colony and were even lucky to spot a little African penguin.
The second trip launched with great conditions, the bay so still it looked like glass! Once on anchor we had that anxious wait however not too much late a fin was spotted about 30 minutes off the back of our boat. This is quite a rare sight as most of the time the fin does not appear until the shark is closer, this shark looked to be happily investigating something in that area as she cruised around in the same spot on the surface for some time. Our sister company, Dyer Island Cruises out on their Marine Big 5 tour then approached our boat and within moments of them arriving we had one of the most stunning White shark sightings for quite some time as a 4.5m female came cruising in and made a surface attempt on our seal decoy which left even the crew in awe. This female is infact a shark that we do know but have not seen for quite some time which is common in our larger sharks that appear to migrate longer distances and visit the area less. The last sighting of this animal by Marine Dynamics was back in 2014 and we nicknamed her “Big Mumma” due to her size, especially her girth. Unfortunately she did not stick around and our last glimpse of her was her very distinct dorsal fin as she swam into the distance. Thankfully another shark showed up, a smaller female but a bit more inclined to stay around a little more, coming and going every 10 minutes or so and giving all our guests a view of her under the water. A quick trip by the Islands and Cape Fur seal colony ended our beautiful afternoon on the water.
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