Marine Dynamics Blog
Tag: Sharks
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We had a great start to the trip today with a small shark spotted within 10 minutes of arriving to our dive area…
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The first time she watched the American action thriller movie, Jaws, she was only 10 years old. ‘And the movie was not frightening at all” says Zaneta. That was the beginning of her love affair with great white sharks. She came all the way from Poland for shark cage diving with Marine Dynamics. She booked 5 consecutive days of shark cage diving trips and went into the cage 9 times in total…
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A beautiful day awaited us in the bay this morning as we launched and headed into the shallows for another day of White shark watching and diving…
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An overcast sky meet us today but the rest of the weather conditions in the bay were fantastic! We had a slight wind to keep things fresh and little to no swell…
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The second shark we spotted was the biggest one of the day with a length of approximately 4.4m. The shark had lots of bite marks on her left flank and she had an open wound on top of these bite marks. Might these be fresh bite marks or is it just a new wound on top of old bite marks…
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Apart from the sharks we saw a short-tail stingray and on our way back we were very fortunate to spot some Common dolphins…
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On our way to Joubertsdam we spotted a pod of Common dolphins so we moved a little bit closer. The dolphins swam up to the boat and seemed to enjoy the waves that it created.
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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE In 2014 we met Dr. Primo Micarelli and his group of scientists from the “Centro Studi Squali” (Study Centre of Sharks) situated in Massa Marittima, Tuscany, Italy. They once again joined the Marine Dynamics crew in Kleinbaai for a week long study expedition on Great White Sharks…
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