For shark-lovers, volunteering at our Eco-tourism partner, Marine Dynamics is the perfect way of getting up close and personal with carcharodon carcharias, more commonly known as the great white shark. Every trip on Slashfin is unique thanks to the abundance of great whites that come to the surface, while unknowingly putting on a show for tourists. Continue reading
We have had a fantastic few months of tracking white sharks in Gansbaai. In September, we deployed two acoustic transmitters on to two 4m plus female sharks on the 3rd and 7th of September respectively. Without giving too much away, the results from following these sharks around as much as possible (weather permitting) have been intriguing with some behaviour we never expected to see. Night tracks were possible with both animals and we can say that our second shark, ‘Besom,’ was a lot safer to track in the evening hours than ‘Sarika,’ our bigger first shark who practically took us into the thick of a Dyer Island kelp forest at around 2am – in the pitch black of night! Continue reading
