Ocean News

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…

Looking to the Future The shark research team at CEI is ever growing with a total of six full time researchers and field assistants – add to that this semesters Island School group and we have a total of twelve people actively working on shark research and conservation – not…

A white shark breaching out of the water after its seal prey Yesterday was a day I won’t easily forget as we had the most beautiful lightning and thunder storm in False Bay while white sharks breached out of the water to catch their seal prey. Seal Island is a…

Today – Tuesday the 18th May 2009, marks the official launch of an initiative that the Cape Eleuthera Institute is very proud to be a part of.  The new website for the shark free marinas initiative is now live and you can see it at www.sharkfreemarinas.com. The shark free marina initiative…

Great whites are by far my favourite shark and probably the most well known of all the sharks, but they certainly aren’t the only species of shark in the cold Cape waters we conduct our research in. One of the most fascinating things about sharks is their enormous diversity and…

Something I have been meaning to write about for a while was the recent visit of the SOSF film and photo crew in the form of Tom Peschak and Dan Beecham.  We had an amazing ten days out catching sharks – the weather did not always play ball but such…

The SOSF Collins Field Guide Sharks of the World is now available as a free download from itunes for your iPhone or iPod touch. The guide which has been described by leading shark scientists as an "…..exceptionally well-produced book, written by the leading authorities on shark systematics and conservation" and "…a…

Another greater hammerhead comes to play So sampling for this season has been difficult again with the wind blowing 25 knots plus for about three weeks now.  The shark team has been bounced around out there but have still managed to get the majority of the baited video surveys completed. …