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25/06/2014
Location: Wilfred’s Rock
Water Temperature: 15.8’C
Depth: 18.0
Visibility: 4.0m
Number of Sharks: 11
Conditions: Choppy

We had another lovely day on the water even with some choppy conditions. Our first shark arrived within 15 minutes of anchoring, and was a large female we have been seeing very frequently in the past weeks with a distinctive freckle on the left side of her head and three scratches, possibly an old bite mark, just to the side of her right pectoral fin. The sharks kept us on our toes today, coming in fast and with numerous sneak attempts on the bait and decoy line. A master of the sneak arrival is "Malcolm X", a large female who we haven’t seen in close to a month, also a personal favourite of mine due to her active yet graceful personality! On a daily basis we see numerous bird species around the boat, today we had a Giant Petrel resting on the water’s surface in front of the cage, which finally got the hint that it probably wasn’t the safest place to rest when a shark chased it off! The past few weeks we have had the pleasure of hosting presenters and attendees of Sharks International, which was held in Durban the first week of June. Sharks International is a chance for leading shark and ray researchers to share recent scientific studies and we had our own Alison Towner presenting her work on the Great White population in Gansbaai. Today we had Alex on board with us from the New South Wales fisheries in Australia who presented his work on variables influencing the catch of Smooth Hammerhead Sharks in the shark meshing program off the coast of NSW. Yesterday we had Sarah and her family on board, who has co-chaired the IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group and authored Sharks of the World. She presented on the development of non-detrimental findings for shark species in CITES. There are always some interesting people to meet on board Slashfin...

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