I think the sharks must have started reading our Marine Dynamicsnewsletters. In July we left off hoping that our sightings would improve and that we would see at least one more spell of activity at Dyer Island again before winter season draws to an end. Continue reading
February 2011 has been an excellent month. We have encountered some spectacular white shark sightings and a drastic improvement on shark numbers from December/January. Interestingly, white shark presence has only been documented at Dyer Island and not in the normal shallow water reef system of Joubertsdam. 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
Much excitement at the moment! Under the guidance of Marine and Coastal Management (MCM) – Oceans & Coasts – we successfully tagged and tracked our first great white shark on the 3rdSeptember 2010 at 10:30am. She was a 4.2m female (huge) and as we implanted the transmitter we immediately began to follow her movements with our hydrophone and receiver, on Lwazi. Continue reading
The last few weeks have seen the beginning of an exciting new phase of research in Klein Bay which that will help us to understand the behaviour of the great white sharks here for the first time. Things are coming together nicely with new equipment, discounts, donations and team spirit! Continue reading
