Daily Blog 28 March 2019 | White Shark Diving Gansbaai

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28/03/2019

Location: Joubertsdam

Water Temperature: 12.6°C + 12.9°C

Depth: 9.1m + 8.5m

Visibility: 1m + 1m

Conditions: Wind picking up through the day with a gentle swell

We were out with the sunshine early this morning! And it wasn’t long until we got our first shark! We had a couple of copper sharks to start of the trip followed quickly by a 2m great white shark, the one with the white pigmentation on the left side of the gills. She came and went throughout the trip with some stunning passes to our divers in the water. Our next shark on this trip was the 4.2m female with the dark scar on the left side towards the tail end. She gave us some stunning aerial activity and our divers were wowed about her beauty! Our final shark on this trip was Clubtail, she was gently cruising around the boat checking out what was going on in the water! A wonderful trip this morning so we headed back into the harbour to collect our next group of eager cage divers.

We rode across the waves on our way back to our dive site, and soon our crew had the cage attached to the vessel. Our divers received their wetsuits, and not a moment after they had them on, when our first white shark sprang up from the deep. Our divers quickly climbed into the cage and the shark repeatedly passed in front of the cage. A few Copper sharks visited our divers later, which came around for some repeated passes as well. One of our local Cape fur seals quickly popped his head up for a brief moment, but quickly disappeared with so many sharks around. With the nice diversity of animals around, and the fantastic behaviour of the sharks, it was an amazing time out at sea.

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