Ocean News

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The rear verandha is looking more like a shop and less like a verandha by the day, with the builders making good progress. This is the major alteration at the moment, although there is some work under way on the interior of the house as well.

Before and after, the verandha before the builders started, and after, Lesley discussing the changes with the builder, Colin Builders are busy making good in-roads into the completition of the ‘donations store’ at the house. The rear verandha is being closed in to form what will be a great store,…

The staff of the Save Our seas Shark centre got together for a lunch on the weekend, to enjoy the first formal meeting of all involved with the new project. Enjoying the kalk Bay sunshine is, from left to right, Adam Carnegie, Jeff Ayliffe, Lesley Rochat, Verona Smith, Alison Kock…

We are pleased to report that the re-location of the chicks has gone well, they were moved to allow builders to begin work on the store, and they seem to be doing very well in their new home!

The builders started this week with the donation store alterations. In order to put the roof on we had to relocate a pigeon who has 2 chicks – we feared she would not like the new little home we built her and abandon her chicks, but fortunately when we last…