Guest comment: “Amazing animals. Great trip! Thanks!” – Diane

“Great day – great way to spend my last day in South Africa. Thank you!” – Nate

“Excellent day! Thank you!” – Ben

15/03/2017

Location: Joubertsdam
Water Temperature: 13.5’C + 13.6’C
Depth: 11.m + 11.5m
Visibility: 1.0m + 1.5m
Number of Sharks: 6 + 4
Conditions: Clearing morning rain with some swell and west winds.

A bit of a drizzling start to the day with some early morning rain however this cleared and gave way to a beautiful day. The sharks arrived soon after we had made anchor with a large male appearing that we have seen before sporting a distinctive flopped tip to the dorsal fin, he disappeared soon after and was not seen the rest of the trip. No worries though more sharks kept arriving throughout the trip including our largest and one of the favourites of the morning, a female approximately 4.0m in length that we have been seeing every now and again over the last few days with some scarring across the head and trunk. The other additions to the trip included the current frequent visitor in the form of a 3.0m female, “Dolphin Fin” the juvenile that became part of Dyer Island Conservation Trusts biopsy study in 2015 and a number of other juveniles. All in all a truly fantastic trip had this morning on board Slashfin.

The second trip of the day started off well with a White shark spotted only moments after the boat arrived back on anchor. The first shark, one of the previous trip’s juvenile was feisty and fun but disappeared soon after making way for the largest shark of the day “Tiger”, a male estimated at 4.2m in length and one that only was sighted in the bay since January for the first time yesterday. Named so because of the strip-like scars all over his head and trunk, believed to be inflicted by another shark back in 2015. It was not only his scars that made him tiger-like this afternoon but also his behaviour with many active approaches on the seal decoy through the trip. Two other sharks joined the trip before it’s end with the large female from this morning and another juvenile coming by for a visit. A great way to end any day.

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