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 […]
Top Tips on Shark Photography by Chris Fallows
Most people think that when you go and photograph marine wildlife you need to get wet. Well in many cases this is not true, especially off the coast in False Bay in Cape Town, South Africa. The beauty about shooting in the bay is that many of the spectacular photographic opportunities that are seen are […]
Far-Reaching Effects on Shark Acoustic Tagging
What is shark acoustic tagging We recently came across this interesting article that highlights the significant effects of the use of acoustic tagging. The fact that the seals seem to have honed in on these tags so readily does lead to the question of how much detrimental effect tags will have on a shark’s predation […]
Best Cape Town Shark Cage Diving Experiences
Cape Town offers The Best Shark Cage Diving Experience It’s the moment the crew long for – the arrival of the first Great White to the boat; to be able to share with the guests a face to face encounter with the most iconic shark of all. But precisely when, or even if, that moment […]
Cage Diving with Sharks Experiences
Experience Cage Diving with Sharks It was eighteen miles off Cape Point when we found them – two Blue Sharks and a Mako. We’d encountered an early morning mist which seemed reluctant to ease as we ventured further south from False Bay, but now we’d struck marine gold. Visibility was improving, and with guests in […]
Is Shark Cage Diving Ethical?
Is Shark Cage Diving Ethical? It seems with the advent of social media, more and more tourist videos of Great white sharks getting into shark cages and sharks thrashing around on baits injuring themselves as they knock against boats, are going viral with many viewers questioning the ethics of shark diving. With Chris being involved in the […]
Who Will Win? Shark vs Seal
Great White Shark vs Seal or Seal vs Great White Shark? One species you are guaranteed sightings of every single trip to Seal Island, South Africa, are of course the seals themselves. When approaching Seal Island, the sight (and smell!) of 65,000 of these curious pinnipeds clinging to a rock amazingly is something many take for […]
