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27/07/2019

Sightings:  Great White Sharks, Bronze whalers and Cape Fur seal

Location: Joubertsdam

Water Temperature: Moderate

Visibility: Moderate

Finally the calm after the storm with conditions lessening after a interesting five days in regards to the conditions. The swell and wind had dropped and even with an eerie mist covering the bay most of the morning it was a pleasant day out on sea. We started early this morning and were surprised and happy to see the sharks appear not long after we had arrived on our anchor in the Shallows. The trip took a turn for the extreme as shark after shark made their presence know to us at the surface. We saw our stunning 4.5m female, known as Clampy, the 3.3m male, Shaun, the bays current long standing sighting, another male just a tad bit smaller than Shaun that we don't know as well and three juvenile White sharks rounding out the trip nicely. We also had a brief encounter with a Bronze whaler shark, but with a flick of the tail it was out of the way as the larger, predatory shark came close. A Cape Fur seal also appeared to be enjoying the Saturday morning in the bay as it frollicked around the boat, yet never getting to close to those sharp-toothed fish!

Back out on sea with our second group of the day, the sharks were yet again present quickly as Clampy gave us many of our great sightings for the trip, and a bonus, she stuck around with us for most of the trip. Two of the juvenile White sharks came through for this group as well, including the small female with a bite scar to here head and large notch to the trailing edge of the dorsal fin, she was much more present during this trip as she made some close passes and inquisitive moves around the boat and cage. The fourth and final Great White was the not so well known male from the morning back again for a quick gander. The Bronze whalers showed up briefly, as the Great Whites gave them a few moments to approach, as did the Cape Fur seal. We had a new visitor to the boat, as during the third cage a Hag fish also known as a Slime eel, slithered around on the waters surface for a short time.

And we headed out for our third and last trip of the day, as it just cleared out a little bit! Just as we got to our dive location we got a shark straight away so we jumped in our wetsuits as soon as possible. A 2.5 m female with a large scar on her back anjd slashed fin circled us around for some time but then gave way for her larger brothers  - 2 males great white sharks, Shaun and another male at around 3.0m, they were very sneaky trying to get our lines but not as sneaky and quick as another juvenile female that moved with some incredible speed showing how agile white sharks can be. We also got to see a Hag fish on this trip giving some people in a cage quite a fright looking like a snake in the water. 

















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