Daily Blog 18 May 2015 | White Shark Diving Gansbaai

Guest Comments:

“Totally amazing. Well worth every minute, would love to do it again” – Terry

“AMAZING! UNREAL! Completely worth the 3am wake up call” – Brigham & Amanda

“So amazing! Enthousiastic crew makes the difference! Thank you!!” – Teresa

Date:  18-5-2015
Location:  Wilfred’s Rock
Water Temperature: 15.6C
Depth: 17.1m
Visibility: 5m
Number of Sharks: 22
Conditions:  A calm morning but wind started to pick up as we headed back to the
harbor

Where to begin.. boy, today was FINtastic. It was an early morning start today as we launched from Kleinbaai harbor at 7 am. After breakfast and waking up having some coffee we went down to the harbor and watched the sunrise as we were driving to our dive site, Wilfred’s rock. It seemed that the shark were around for breakfast as well because we soon spotted our first shark. The sharks were active from the beginning, ambushing the bait and decoy handlers until a shark breached completely right in front of the decoy handler, only 2 meters away from the boat! As it plunged back into the water the splash it created got Gerald soaked as he was sitting on a platform to get some video footage of the sharks gliding through the water. I have to admit, I was too slow to get a picture of the breach but there were a few lucky people that did get it on camera. The sharks kept on coming as time progressed and we managed to see 22 different sharks in total! The numbers of sharks we have seen the last few days have been really high so hopefully they will stay like that as long as possible so that as many people can enjoy their presence around the boat.


If you are looking to get up close and personal with the great white shark then White Shark Diving in Gansbaai, and more specifically with Marine Dynamics, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience you won’t want to miss. Book and pay online with us and get a free video of your encounter with the world’s apex predator.

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