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April 21, 2015

Daily Blog 21 April 2015 (Trip 1 + 2) | Great White Shark Cage Diving Gansbaai

A lovely start to the day with sharks seen from the boat within 15 minutes of anchoring, and this wasn’t just any shark but “Malcolm X” a fesity 4.0m or so female…

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April 21, 2015

Daily Blog 20 April 2015 (Trip 1 + 2) | White Shark Diving Gansbaai

As we got to Joubertsdam we found out that the visibility was incredible! Visibility was at least 4 meters. The sharks seemed to like it as they were around in abundant numbers and we didn’t have to wait at all for sharks to show up…

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April 21, 2015

Ingrid is Charlize, Charlize is Ingrid!

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