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2019 has been a busy one for the Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Education Centre.  We have had many school groups visit us and learn about sharks and life on the rocky shores. These are some of the things we get up to with the school groups that visit us…

The Southern African Shark & Ray Symposium (SASRS) is a biennial meeting of the academic community of Southern Africa who are conducting research on sharks and rays. The 5th Symposium was held from 7 to 9 October 2019 at the Two Oceans Aquarium under the theme: Elasmobranchs in the blue…

Each session starts with a safety briefing. Learners wear green rash vests and instructors yellow. This way we can keep a good eye on everybody in the group. A run along the beach warms the blood on cold days. Can the learners keep up with the instructor? Correct stretching is…

This year on the 21st of September, the staff at the Shark Education Centre hosted a clean-up at Dalebrook beach as part of International Coastal Clean-up day.  It turned out to be a very rainy and windy day but we put on our ponchos and boots and got stuck in.…

The holiday club in September is always fun for us at the Shark Education Centre as the sun is out and we start to enjoy warmer weather.  This means exploring outside! Whenever possible we take the group outside to experience our beautiful coast and check out the things we learn…

Plastic is versatile, durable and (sometimes) recyclable. Each plastic product should have an international polymer identification code to identify the type of plastics used to create that product. Let’s have a look at the seven codes: 1: (PET) PET stands for Polyethylene terephthalate. PET is technically 100% recyclable.  Once recycled,…

Many cities around the world have a problem because people generate too much waste. Mountains of garbage are piling up at landfill sites so they have to be closed sooner than necessary and a new site developed. No one wants a landfill site near them so finding suitable new sites…

Rockpooling is a fun family activity! There are so many fascinating creatures for you to discover. Here are a few tips to help you get started. When to go: It is very important to check for the tide times for your chosen beach. The best time to go is at…

The June holidays seem like a distant memory now that the kids have all gone back to school and the third term is in full swing. Looking back at the pictures from our June holiday club programme reminded me that learning can be fun! Here are some pictures of the…

We live on a blue planet. One whose surface is 70% covered by water. But of that water, only 3% is fresh water, and less than 1% is actually available to life on earth! This fact was brought home quite dramatically to Cape Town when we experienced a severe drought.…

At the beginning of the school holidays, the Save our Seas Foundation Shark Education Centre arranged a three day Marine Camp for School learners from Capricorn Primary School. Nineteen excited children arrived at the Soetwater Environmental Centre near Kommetjie for an educational but activity-filled experience of the ocean shore ecosystem.…

A typical school group visit to the Shark Education Centre generates a considerable amount of plastic waste during snack break time. We are encouraging all school groups (and therefore all parents whose children visit our centre) to cut down on the packaging used in packed lunches. There are three very…

  This group of excited Marine Explorers had their first snorkel lesson at Pisces Divers pool on the 12th of April 2019. Everybody was very excited because this was going to be their first day in the water with masks, snorkels and fins. Since then, we have done another pool…

Last year the Shark Education Centre developed a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) system to measure its social and environmental impact. We built a framework to look at short-, mid- and long-term outcomes and assigned indicators for each of these outcomes which will help us reach our desired educational impact…

We took a look back at 2018 and how many people came to visit us at the Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Education Centre.  We are so pleased to see how many school children and members of the public had the opportunity to come and see what we offer here…