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There is a rumour going around stating that you require wings in order to be able to fly, I disagree! I believe you need fins :)! Today the sharks were full of spunk and that from start to finish! They were jumping like I haven’t seen in quite a while; you really do appreciate them more and more everyday! It was not a flat sea day today; however we had a very successful trip nonetheless! We had a sat tagged shark today, which I believe to be “Dorien”. Good to see these sharks are still doing well. Hope you enjoy the photos...

A beautiful day out at sea and we were treated to two smaller white sharks for the first hour of our trip. Both around 3 meters in length they were fairly feisty and made numerous passes of the cage. However it wasn’t until an hour into the trip that things really started to get exciting, our third shark was around 4.2 m in length and our fourth a little over 4.5! Not long after their arrivals we were surrounded by many sharks leaving the final count between 8 and 10 – what a way to end the trip!

What happens when you pair a world-renowned explorer with a group of eager young adventurers and put them in the water with great white sharks...?

The sun is shining and the weather is great! Always a pleasure to have the sun out like today especially in these cold winter days. This made for two very successful trips with tremendous shark activity. Our first trip had a lot of young people from all parts of the world, they formed part of the ‘Mike Horn’ group. These young people help the needy all across the globe, a true pleasure to have such good samaritans on board the boat. A massive 4.6 meter shark made an appearance on this trip to everyone’s delight. Our second trip had both young and old aboard and they were lucky to have no waiting time for the sharks to arrive and they were quite jumpy on the second trip. What a great day...

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Fantastic work done by both Kwezi and Zane allowed for some fantastic photo opportunities! You need to be very good at anticipating the next move of the shark in order to assure that they do not get the bait. Some sharks will hang around for ages and participate in this cat and mouse game for hours, others decide that it is not for them and leave after one or two passes. We had a variety of different shark sizes ranging from 2.3 meters all the way to the 4.2 meter sizes. Despite some people succumbing to “motion distress” on board the trip, the sharks didn’t mind a little bit of extra chum in the water! Thanks to those who made their contribution :)...