Marine Dynamics Blog

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...

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 :)...

We had a very international and diverse group on board today, this definitely allowed for some communication hurdles to be crossed :)! Even though we were all from different parts of the globe, one thing brought us together here in Kleinbaai, our passion for the Great White Shark! Baring that in mind made communication a breeze, everyone knew what I was talking about and where to look as long as I included shark in my sentences hahaha! We had some great weather and perfectly timed, because the clouds are starting to look a lot darker than they did this morning! We had several big sharks around the boat around the 4 meter margin; however they were dwarfed by a massive 4.8 meter female! She just seemed to appear and disappear out from the abyss and cause an awkward silence on the boat. A truly fantastic animal with several “tiger stripes” on its tail making her very recognisable! We will see if we can find her tomorrow...

Even though we have been having some Great Visibility and people might start to think that they have arrived in the tropics, you haven’t! Though the conditions are tremendous, our water temperature has not changed :)!  Our cold nutrient rich waters allow for incredible diversity and splendid shark viewing, but cold waters will always be part of the experience. I have grown accustomed to these waters and I honestly perceive them as being normal; well worth it in the end! We had some very nice passes and leaps in front of the cage to everyone’s surprise and delight! The sharks gave us several toothy moments as you can see on the pictures! Great fun out at sea...

Some of the best visibility that we have had in quite a while around the island! We could see all the way down to the sea bed and beyond. Its days like today that I need to restrain myself from jumping overboard and indulging my desire to swim circles around the boat! Great bunch of people on board today who were very happy with the shark activity, despite the waiting time. It had to happen sooner or later; our zero waiting time had to run out at some point. The delay was only about a half hour, nothing to bad though, well worth it as you can see on the photos! Let’s see what tomorrow brings...

The best conditions needed to host two very successful trips! If the number of sharks today weren’t good enough, then the sea conditions truly put the icing on the cake. We had some very great sharks on our first trip with several ones being in the range of the 4 meter margin. They were very constant and stayed around the cage for the entire duration of our trip! The second trip had the only tagged shark of the day, “Brenda”, which was especially jumpy today. We had two full breaches on our decoy in pretty spectacular fashion. If you weren’t paying attention to the sharks today, you would have definitely missed that photo opportunity! This means that you have to come join us on the trip again! Great news for you :)! See you soon...