Ocean News

Good morning everyone, and welcome to the first installment of the CEI shark program blog!  Its mid summer here in the Bahamas with heavy duty sunshine and 30 + degrees outside – a number which becomes more significant with no air conditioning in the office and no shade on the…

Just a little reminder in case you hadn’t heard, but SOSF is going to represented twice at this years Wildscreen Awards(they’re like the wildlife Oscars you know). Firstly with our Rethink the Shark series which is up for the Best Campaign Award, which was developed by our team at the SOSF Shark Centre.…

The MCSS have been monitoring whale sharks around Seychelles since a pilot project in November 1996. Since that two week pilot project, the programme has grown steadily and with the support of the Save Our Seas Foundation for the last three years, has become one of the most comprehensive whale…

A small explanation to begin: The Floating Point (FP) is where anything marine related heads to be digested. Films, books, research, The FP retains an open door policy in an age where all forms of media have an ability to change the way we humans perceive and interact with our…

View the clip on CNN here. On the sea before first light and spotting great white sharks by dawn, Alison Kock, is dedicating her life to studying the mysteries behind the great white shark. Earlier this week CNN’s Anderson Cooper joined Alison for the day to film her at work…

What a way to go! Just when I thought I could take a breather, World Ocean Day (WOD) crept up on me! We had only been open for two weeks, hardly caught our breaths after that grueling 90 days leading up to the opening, when the next thing we know…

In celebration of World Ocean Day, the recently launched Save Our Seas Shark Centre (SOSSC) will be driving a number of events in False Bay in order to raise awareness. It’s up to each one of us to help ensure that our oceans are protected and conserved for future generations.…

What an incredibly huge success! It all came together in the last hour, literally – I was still mopping the foyer floor an hour before the guests arrived, Morne, Alison’s fiance, was still out catching fish for our tank, and everyone was running around like headless chickens doing last minute…

The rough seas of the monsoon season can make it difficult to get off the Aldabra atoll but the Save Our Seas team found themselves wishing it was even harder to leave… Standing closer to the bow than the rest of my expedition team, which sat huddled in wet t-shirts…

Things are beyond hectic here at the Save Our Seas Shark Centre – we have less than 3 weeks before our big opening and first international shark workshop, and 24 hours in a day is just not enough! As I write our cabinetmakers are assembling our fitted furniture; the screeching…

Once again, the week has flown by at a truly hectic pace. Cheryl-Samantha Owen is back in town, the planning for the launch has now kicked into high gear and the centre is absolutely buzzing with activity. Today was also the first of a two day stint with us for…

Yesterday morning we got a call that a large seal was hauled out on our local beach. This is not new for us as there is a breeding colony of over 70 000 Cape fur seals just a few kilometers away. However, the public were concerned that the seal was…

Last week, Alison and the Save Our Seas Foundation hosted the City of Cape Town’s beach managers on the Save Our Seas Shark Centre’s research boat. The aim was to take the beach managers to Seal Island in False Bay to introduce them to the white sharks they hear and…

This morning was one of my favourites. I crept out of bed, unclipped my pelican case quietly (which is near impossible) and crept down the veranda – between our sleeping habits on this expedition, which are far off in zombie land and the crashing of the waves against the champignons…

We pulled up both bait stations out of the water today, and with them our hopes to find and photograph large shark species off Aldabra also dried. Inshore, however, we did enjoy a last dive at high tide with the black tip reef sharks, photographing them silhouetted between the champignons.…