Sharkwatch SA Blog

 Guest comment: “Thanks so much for an excellent and exciting experience. I learnt a lot and will not forget this day!” – Katrina

“It was a great experience. Very friendly staff!” – Marc + Ines

“Thank you for a great experience, staff and crew!” - Cara

07/05/2014

Location: Joubertsdam + Shark Alley
Water Temperature: 14.5'C + 14.4’C
Depth: 9.8m + 10.9m
Visibility: 1.0m + 4.0m
Number of Sharks: 5+4
Conditions: Choppy + windy

This morning started off with great conditions and great sharks! A small but very active female was the first shark to be sighted and also the last, sticking around the boat the whole trip. During the last cage the wind and swell picked up leading to a change in our dive site to Shark Alley for the afternoon. On our second trip we were lucky enough to see four of the Big Marine Five! We saw our feature creature the Great White Shark, but we also saw the Cape Fur Seals on Geyser Rock, a raft of African Penguins on their way back to Dyer Island after a feed and a Southern Right Whale that was swimming some distance from the portside and bow of the boat. It was great to see all these animals, especially the Southern Right Whale as it is still very early in the season but hopefully this is a sign of things to come and these sightings will be a regular occurrence soon. Our largest shark of the day was a 4.3m female that had divers in and out of the cage scrambling to have a look and snap a photo! We also had a newly tagged shark that has an accelerometer and camera attached to record proper acceleration in particular when a natural predation occurs. Yet another interesting and informative day onboard Slashfin...

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