Shark Log 5 June 2011
6th June 2011
Not 1 shark came up to our vessel today, other boats had a brief glimpse but that was it. Trips like today are very frustrating from a research aspect there simply are no sharks to photograph and document. 6 hours is a long time with no shark activity. We observed…
Education Log 3 June 2011
5th June 2011
The grade sevens of Charleston Hill Primary School from Paarl visited the Centre today. They saw and learned about an amazing variety of plants and animals in the rock pools and broadened their knowledge about sharks.Going by the number of questions asked, they had a great day. Special thanks to…
Shark Log 4 June 2011
5th June 2011
The sharks remained slow today with only one 3.5 metre male who behaved exactly like the one shark we had yesterday. It made 3 passes and then disappeared. However, we did observe 5 predation attempts with a spectacular lunge at seals crossing the launch pad. On the way home we…
Shark Centre Update August 2010
20th August 2010
It’s been a very busy year at the Save Our Seas Shark Centre (SOSSC). We welcomed Meg Ledeboer as the new manager, Kevin Baker as logistics officer, Paul Miller as educator, Adrian Hewitt and Robert Raw, two Masters Students conducting shark research, and Candice Brittain, a full time intern. Michael,…
The Bafana Bafana Shark
27th June 2010
The Save Our Seas Shark Centre in Cape Town gets into the spirit of the Football World Cup. If only Bafana Bafana had selected a couple of these guys as the defenders in their squad, they’d have had no trouble swimming into the second round. Opposition strikers would have been,…