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September 11, 2015

Marine Dynamic recieves provincial Lilizela Award

Best Marine Adventure in the Western Cape…

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July 8, 2015

The Polish Shark Lover

The first time she watched the American action thriller movie, Jaws, she was only 10 years old. ‘And the movie was not frightening at all” says Zaneta. That was the beginning of her love affair with great white sharks. She came all the way from Poland for shark cage diving with Marine Dynamics. She booked 5 consecutive days of shark cage diving trips and went into the cage 9 times in total…

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June 25, 2015

Massive female Great White Shark in Gansbaai waters – 12 May 2015

Our days out on the water are full of surprises but no one was expecting the MASSIVE surprise we got on the 12th of May. A female Great White, bigger than our cage in length and girth, got the whole boat excited…

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June 25, 2015

Deployment success!

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May 20, 2015

Rachel

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April 27, 2015

On the Tracks of the Great White Shark (Episode 2)

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE In 2014 we met Dr. Primo Micarelli and his group of scientists from the “Centro Studi Squali” (Study Centre of Sharks) situated in Massa Marittima, Tuscany, Italy. They once again joined the Marine Dynamics crew in Kleinbaai for a week long study expedition on Great White Sharks…

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April 21, 2015

Ingrid is Charlize, Charlize is Ingrid!

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