Ocean News

Karen Muller from SANCCOB visits the Shark Centre Karen Muller with Columbine and Rocky Karen Muller is the most delightful woman and her visits to the events in Kalk Bay and St James during the Environmental Week were a hit with the children. Karen served her time at SANCCOB as…

Sue meets the White Shark! It eloquently portrays our message about the need for humans to help to conserve and protect our sharks and highlights the importance of sharks in the delicate sea ecosystems. It also successfully debunks myths about sharks and depicts the important role of the YES Shark…

SOS Shark Centre (8 June 2009) On Saturday 6 June, we facilitated a visit of the Khwela Community based organization from Khayelitscha, friends and family of the Kalk Bay community, the Shark Spotters and the public. The diverse group enjoyed the Shark Dreams play presented by Jungle Theatre, the penguins…

Pollution and its effect on marine animals (1 June – 5 June 2009) The programme included the incredible play, Shark Dreams, by Jungle Theatre (based upon a book written by Lesley Rochat), short talks: the effects of pollution on penguins, the real need for recycling and the environment, minimizing our…

NutCase returns to Seal Island We have had some spectacular days out at Seal Island in the last month. On top of our usual research activities of tagging and tracking sharks we have also being attempting to deploy Crittercams again. The deployments have been difficult so far due to a…

Hanifaru, an island in the Maldives Archipelago, is one of the world’s most important sites for the majestic manta ray. Each year between May and November the tide works its magic to suck krill and other plankton into Hanifaru Bay. The tiny creatures then become trapped and form an irresistibly…

In principle, there are two ways to equip sharks with acoustic tags: you can either attach the tags externally or internally. For both methods there are good examples to be found in the scientific literature. If done internally, you would usually catch the fish for surgical tag implantation. An alternative…

Participants during Environmental Week It was Environmental Week last week and what a wonderful success we had at the SOSSC – we reached about 2800 learners, and a couple of hundred adults! As director of education and awareness of the SOS Shark Centre, I promote collaboration amongst other organisations and…

The End of the Line. It’s being compared to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and it deals with the overfishing of our oceans. There’s several excerpts and trailers on the above mentioned webpage. Check it out, go to the movies and tell everybody to see it! It’s important! It really…

Celebrate World Oceans Day  – Our Oceans, Our Responsibility To celebrate World Oceans Day SOSF will be running events at the London Aquarium starting on Monday 8 June and continuing through the week. The Save Our Seas Shark Centre in Kalk Bay, South Africa is also putting on a number…

The concept for World Oceans Day was proposed in 1992 by the Government of Canada at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and it had been unofficially celebrated every year since then. Official designation by the U.N. is a significant step in conserving and protecting our world’s ocean. The…

A coffin ‘washes up’ on the beach Sunday: It’s the last day of the roll out of the campaign. This is the big one, the most unusual one of the three, the coffin ‘washed up’ on the beach. I’m feeling a little tired, had 4 hours sleep, too early for…

Early morning surfers and a bottle washing onto shore Saturday: I’m up again before the crack of dawn and on Muizenberg beach. The weather has held as it did yesterday when we did the speaking shells. I need the light for good shots so I’m relieved. Today we are placing…

For about six years now I have been working closely with the dynamic ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi, Cape Town. I was introduced to them by the Two Oceans Aquarium and commissioned them to help me change peoples perceptions of sharks for my SOSF M-Sea Programme. The result was the…