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By Heidi Thormählen

Words by Zanele Mayiya Lintini zolwandle ezinoboya kokona kutya kuphambili kookrebe abamhlophe abanobunganga, ngoba zinamamafutha amaninzi adingwa ngaba krebe ukubanika amandla. Ookrebe baziwa ngokuhlasela abantu xa bephazamisekile okanye befuna ukwazi izinto, Ukuba ukrebe ubona umntu exhuma emanzini angazama ukuqonda uba yintoni kutsho kuphele kusenzeka ingozi engalindelekanga. Banokuninzi abanokoyika kuthi kunathi…

Words by Zanele Mayiya Cape fur seals form a main part of the great white shark’s diet, because they have a lot of fat, which the sharks needs for energy. Sharks have been known to bite humans when they are confused or curious. If a shark sees a human splashing…

Words by Eleanor Yeld Hutchings • Sharks have 40 to 45 teeth on average and up to seven rows of replacement teeth. They can go through more than 30,000 teeth in a lifetime! • The cookiecutter shark gets its name from its method of feeding. It latches its mouth onto…

Words by: Eleanor Yeld Huthings • Beautiful clear, red sunrises and sunsets begin a little later (sunrise) and a little earlier (sunset) than they have been. • Northwesterly winds begin to blow, sometimes bringing the first rainstorms. • Swallows gather in huge numbers on roofs and telephone wires, ready to…

By Zanele Miyaya Njengabazali sonke siyazi ukuba abantwana bethu likamva lethu ingako kufanele siqalise beselula ubafundisa ngokuhlonipha, nokuthanda indalo yethu ingakumbi ngelwandle zethu ezintle. Singakwenza njani oko? • Ngokundwendwela nabo i Akwariyam kunganika abantwana bakho ithuba lokubukela kufutshane izilwane ezifana no krebe,amafudo olwandle,amalulwane nezinye. • Iincwadi ezithetha ngamalwandle nendalo yalo…

Words by Zanele Miyaya As parents, we all know that our children are our future, so that’s why we have to start teaching them at an early age to respect and love our natural world, especially our beautiful oceans. How can we do that? • Visit the sea aquarium to…

Words by: Paul Millar Here in South Africa’s Western Cape the seasons are starting to change. The days are becoming noticeably shorter and the nights and early mornings have a coolness that means only one thing: winter is slowly waking up. We also see this change reflected in the presence…

The Marine Explorers Club works with local children to foster a love and respect for the sea through surfing, diving and educational experiences along the coastline of False Bay.

For quite a while now, the Save Our Seas Foundation’s Shark Education Centre has had these two signs up and its front door has been firmly closed. While we have been running our educational programming with schools, the centre has been closed to walk-ins and the general public, citing ‘renovations…

By: Zanele Mayiya The Marine and Coastal Educators Network (MCEN) Conference was held at the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa in Tshwane (Pretoria) from 11 to 16 January 2015. I attended the event with Eleanor Yeld Hutchings and found it to be very inspiring and very well planned. From…

Our Marine Explorers programme has resumed for 2015. We’re looking forward to sharing the wonders of False Bay and the ocean with another young group of Explorers.

‘School’s out for the summer… School’s out for ever!’ (lyrics from Alice Cooper, 1972) Well, not quite! But certainly end-of-year summer school holidays are upon us. Here at the Save Our Seas Shark Education Centre, we can feel vacation in the air with the end of all our school programming…

That inevitable, sometimes tricky, end-of-year question popped up the other day. ‘What was the most enjoyable part of your working year?’ I was asked. No careful thought was required. ‘Surfing with happy kids on Friday afternoons’ was my unedited, entirely honest response. Being in the water is always fun –…

Shark Education Centre’s facilities manager Heidi Thormählen’s daughter, Maya at the Two Oceans Aquarium, Cape Town during a recent outing with the Shark Education Centre and our Marine Explorers.