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The surprise of the day was a juvenile shark at an estimated length of 1.6m! That is one of the smallest sharks we have seen so far and we believe it to be the same individual we saw a few weeks ago…

A nice early wake up call for all this morning with Slashfin launching at 7:30am to try and beat some bad weather conditions rolling in as the day progressed…

We were back on the water today after 2 days off due to some not so cage dive friendly weather…  

It was a cold morning but because we launched early for our first trip we were able to watch part of the sunrise…

An early morning start as north westerly winds were picking up during the day…

Well well what a day…the conditions were comfortable and the sharks were GREAT!…

The sharks were back in the shallows today and so were we…

Our next sighting came as a surprise; it was two Southern Right whales passing through Shark Alley! These are the first Southern Right whales we have spotted from Slashfin this year, hopefully more will come over the next few weeks…

A late start today as we tried to let the wind and swell from earlier on in the day decrease before we headed out onto the water…

The sharks were active from the beginning, ambushing the bait and decoy handlers until a shark breached completely right in front of the decoy handler, only 2 meters away from the boat…

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