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  • Shark cage diving in Gansbaai, South Africa with Marine Dynamics. Experience the exceptional and come face to face with a great white shark! 

  • The exact world record white shark is a contested issue, but chances are it is between 6-7m. In Gansbaai, the largest white shark ever caught was at Danger Point and measured up to 5.9m.

  • If you see a white shark in the water don’t panic. Chances are high that the shark has already detected you and isn’t interested. White shark attacks are normally associated with poor visibility, so avoid murky conditions.

  • White sharks have a unique system called a “counter current heat exchange”, which keeps their body  tempreture +/- 7C above the surrounding water temperature. 

  • All sharks have an incredibly unique system on the tip of their nose called the “ampillae of Lorenzini”. These are small pores filled with a gel that transmits the electrical currents in the water to the shark’s brain so that it can assess its environment.

  • White sharks give birth to live young (not eggs), and they give birth to 6-8 pups at one time. Pups are usually between 1.0-1.5m in length and are born with teeth.

  • Body language has been a well documented form of shark communication and has identified body arching, jaw gaping, and other postures as specific social tactics.

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White Shark Diving Gansbaai | Daily trip 27 March 2014 (Trip1+2)

Thursday, March 27, 2014 |  0 Comment Tags: Great White Shark, Helen Pattullo, shark cage diving, Short-Tailed stingray,

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Guest comment: “Thank you for a truly awesome day, you are all so professional + devoted to your sharks” – Polly + Sally

“Passionate crew who are very knowledgeable about the sharks! Beautiful experience, thank you!” – Lisa

“Fantastic trip. Excellent staff, crew + volunteers!! Myself + family loved the sharks, awesome!” - Gill

27/03/2014
Location: Joubertsdam
Water Temperature: 18.3'C
Depth: 12.0m
Visibility: 2.0m
Number of Sharks: 10+7
Conditions: Calm + Sunny

HAHA!!! GOT YA!!! Happy April Fool's everyone!!!

It was great to get back on the water after two days of bad weather and all the strong winds seem to have improved the diving conditions! Aside from being an incredibly calm and warm day, the visibility had improved to a nice 2m and the temperature increased yet again to a lovely 18.3 degrees Celsius, today’s divers really lucked out! The sharks didn’t take long to arrive and although we started with a smaller feisty juvenile of roughly 2.7m, eventually even the big ones were swimming round us. We had a beautifully graceful 4.4m girthy female who came round for both trips to make everyone’s eyes pop, and “Ninja” came to give us some of her infamous half-breaches! There was also a 3.6m shark on our second trip that had a tiny little suckerfish attached to its dorsal fin, always an exciting sight as we don’t see them very often. The warm temperatures brought one of our friendly Short-Tailed stingrays to the surface again who was hanging round the decoy for quite some time and coming up to check it out.  It really was a fantastic day to get back on the water...   


If you are looking to get up close and personal with the great white shark then White Shark Diving in Gansbaai, and more specifically with Marine Dynamics, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience you won’t want to miss. Book online with us and get a free video of your encounter with the world’s apex predator.
 

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