The biggest asset to date in the early stages of the SOSSC has been our 'man of mystery', who goes by the name of Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo has thrown himself into all aspects of the house with tireless enthusiasm, arranging men and woman for volunteer work, giving advice on the building and all technical aspects, arranging a computer team to service the new PC's at the centre, and in fact handling just about anything that needs to be handled. He is also crafting a custom-designed piece of furniture for the centre, and he's doing the shelving for the dive-team equipment and books. His only condition is that he remains completely anon. We managed to get a pic, above, of Bilbo today, this is about as much as you will get.

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Top, a group of volunteer 'workers' from Pisces divers, Jan, Gemma and 'Ro', hard at work, then middle, resting after a long haul of painting! They pitched in on friday evening to do some touch up work in the garage. All 3 work at Pisces Divers. Ro and Jan are PADI trainee-Dive masters, and Gemma is a full time PADI Instructor, and are kindly giving their time to help move things along - Below, the newly plastered and painted wall.

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Lesley has spent much of the time recently in meetings with the interior design team, going through the finer details of the decor that will be welcoming visitors to the Shark centre once it opens it's doors to the public. Lesley, above, discussing the designs with Claire and Bruce of Phase 2 Interiors.

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Alison and assistant recovering data from a 'listening station', top, and the dorsal of a tagged white shark, above.Whilst we are working through every aspect of preparing the centre for it's official opening, the research team are hard at work in the bay. Alison Kock has been busy tagging White Sharks, and using 'listening stations' distributed at various points to collect the data as to the movents.Alison is due to dive within the next 2 -3 days to collect the latest batch of data.

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Lesley is always involved in even the most minute details of all aspects of the project. Visitors to the SOSSC can rest comfortably in the knowledge that even the accurate postioning of the loo sub assemblies have been personally tested, adjusted and approved by her! The specially designed bag on Lesley's lap contains lead blocks weighing an astounding 120 Kg, thus Lesley has once again catered for all sizes and weights of visitors during the TBSEP (TOILET BOWL SELECTION & ELIMINATION PROCESS).

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Jan De Bruyn, a dive instructor and part time computor whizz has generously volunteered to cruise through the SOSSC, and he's done an amazing job to network all the PC's, get us connected to the internet, linked to each others networks, and a million other things that non-techno types take for granted each day!The only thing we havent had Jan do is link us to the Pentagon!

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Matheus Nahole has joined the staff at the Save Our Seas Shark Centre, and he will be getting involved with many aspects of the day to day operations at the house.Matheus is from Namibia, and is looking forward to the challenges of the new job, he hopes to get involved with some diving as well. Watch this space!

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