Air Jaws: Returns
Shark Week 30th Anniversary: Celebrating Air Jaws Returns The Air Jaws franchise has been Discovery channel’s most successful Shark Week franchise in its existence to date. As such it came as no surprise that for 2018 and the 30th Anniversary of this week celebrating Air Jaws Returns with over 30 million viewers the network commissioned a “Best […]
Gansbaai’s Orca Predation on the Great White Shark
It would be fair to say that if you had not heard about the 3 confirmed Orca predations on Great White Sharks that have recently taken place in Southern Cape waters you must have been hiding under a rock somewhere. This devastatingly interesting news of one of the ocean’s top predators taking out another top predator has […]
A Visual Celebration of the Great White Shark – Air Jaws
Who would ever have thought way back in 2000 when we were working on the Original Air Jaws for Discovery Channel’s Shark Week that now, 18 years later and 9 documentaries down the track, the world would still be so engrossed in seeing 2000Lb sharks flying out of the water. I guess when you think about it […]
How to Choose a Shark Cage Diving Destination in South Africa
By Kiara Homan There are a few things to consider when looking for a place to shark cage dive. Location is a huge factor. The three main places to dive are Cape Town, Gansbaai and Mossel Bay: each with its own unique offerings. Each location is situated within a bay. The Cape Town location is […]
Why are Great White Sharks disappearing from the South African Coastline?
Why are Great White Sharks leaving the South African Coastline? By Kiara Homan The debate surrounding the disappearance of great white sharks; firstly, in False Bay, then Gansbaai, and now in Mossel Bay, leaves much speculation as to why this has occurred. Many argue that the recent increase in Orca activity is the main reason […]
Exciting Cage Diving Experience in Gansbaai
The day had arrived for me to experience cage diving in the Capital of Great White shark hotspots in the world; Gansbaai. I had had the privilege of already cage diving twice in False Bay, and having heard so much about the Gansbaai area and its sharks, I was more than eager to finally put a picture […]
South Africa’s First Great White Shark Cage Diving Experience
The South African Great White shark viewing and research industry first started in the late 1980s. The often unsung pioneers were PJ van der Walt and George Askew. With very limited success working in the summer months in the Macassar area of False Bay, they then moved to Walker Bay off Hermanus with far greater […]
Guide to Shark Cage Diving in Gansbaai
Gansbaai, two hours outside of Cape Town is an embayment on the South West coast of the Western Cape. The water temperature varies from 12 – 20 degrees celsius, and the water visibility on average is 6 – 8 meters, increasing up to 12 – 15 meters on a good day and down to 1 – […]
Best Shark Cage Diving with Mako and Blue Sharks
Any dive with sharks in the deep blue sea is an incredible adventure and an extremely spectacular experience that will never be forgotten. Our company offers cage diving with the remarkable Great White sharks at Seal Island, Cape Town as well as scuba diving with magnificent Blue and Mako sharks in the deep. If you are an […]
What’s in a Name? Seal Island, False Bay.
The History of Cape Point and False Bay begins in 1488 when the Cape of Good Hope was named “The Cape of Storms” by the first European to reach the Cape; a Portuguese explorer named Bartolomeu Dias. Later on, John II of Portugal called it the Cape of Good Hope, as it was the first […]
