Spare a thought for shark cage diving operators around the Western Cape, and those operating shark viewing tours, for the hardships they’ve endured these past few years.
Yesterday evening, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) spotted a 3,5-metre great white upstream from the river mouth.
Beaches were shut and authorities searched the coastline looking for the great white that mauled a male victim at around 4:30PM just off Little Bay in east Sydney.
There’s no need to panic. Rather, Shark Spotters is simply letting us know that we should be a little more cautious about when and where we swim this summer.
A government-appointed team of nine experts has released the results of their study into why great white sharks have all but disappeared from what were once hotspots.
More Australians have been killed in unprovoked shark attacks this year than in any year since 1934, so you can understand the reaction of kayaker Matthew Smith.
Renowned South African photographer Chris Fallows spent countless hours bobbing in the water near Seal Island, before snapping this incredible image.
The footage was shot on Sunday, and shows at least four different great whites tucking in.
After a long absence from Cape waters, great white sharks have once again been sighted. That makes the work done by Shark Spotters all the more important.
The disappearance of Cape Town’s great white sharks has attracted plenty of international media attention, and now CNN is wading in.
Many Capetonians are saddened by the sudden disappearance of great white sharks from the area, but none more so than those whose livelihood depends on their presence.
The Shark Spotters research team have no confirmed sightings of a great white this year, and shark cage diving eco-tourism operators who frequent False Bay’s Seal Island have been just as unsuccessful.
The Shark Spotters programme has a good handle on how many great white sharks are in the area, and the last 18 months paint a worrying picture.
The ill-informed might think that surfers would be happy to have fewer sharks in the water, but that’s missing the point.
Researchers mounted cameras on eight different great white sharks. When they watched the footage, they were surprised to see new predation techniques.
This last summer season, Shark Spotters recorded an all-time low number of great white shark sightings. This has opened the door for other species.
When great white sharks started washing up dead along the Gansbaai coast, many were left stumped. Turns out a pair of slick hunters were hard at work.
Over a period of nine years, researchers in False Bay recorded 1 105 great white shark sightings, identifying 303 individuals species. Here’s what they learnt.
We know that they are the ocean’s apex predators, but it seems that great white sharks aren’t averse to a little headbutt either. Spare a thought for this chap.
2017 has been a pretty rough year for great white sharks in the Gansbaai area, and now there’s another death to explain. Bad news for cage diving operators.
In May scientists were shocked to find three great white sharks that had fallen prey to orcas, and now you can add a fourth to that list. They’ve even named the hunters.
It’s not a very good time to be a great white off the coast of the Western Cape at present, with a number of sharks washing ashore. Orcas are on the prowl.
Most of us who take a plunge now and again don’t want to come face to face with the ocean’s apex predator. Turns out we might get our wish.
South Africa is known around the world for our brilliant shark-cage diving, although things aren’t going so well in Gansbaai.
Watching this video is like the Tabard to swimming in the ocean. It makes cage diving seem almost as pleasant as being stuck in space without oxygen. Fun times.
Sharks are commonly represented by pop culture as predators that will almost certainly circle their prey before closing in for the kill. But the truth of the matter is that you wouldn’t see them coming if they were certain you were a food item – they probably aren’t all that convinced if they’re circling. This, […]
Researchers have discovered there are more great white sharks visiting coastline spots than previously thought. Surfers, take a deep breath, because they reckon this discovery confirms that sharks have much less of an interest in humans than Sharknado would have us believe.
Currently we rely heavily on Shark Spotters positioned at strategic points along the Cape Peninsula for shark warnings. What if there was an app for that, too?
In the wake of the tragic death of 20-year old Capetonian bodyboarder, David Lillienfeld last Thursday, the City of Cape Town has agreed to implement a shark spotting programme at Kogel Bay, where the young man lost his life.
Chris Fischer is an American documentary maker whose program, Shark Men, is in the Cape tagging Great White sharks along our coastline. A group opposed to this have lodged a complaint with the Department of Environmental Affairs, claiming the “research” Fischer conducts might make good TV, but is damaging to the sharks. Both sides of the story, after the jump!