Its just one month to go for Discovery Channels annual Shark Week and this year will be the 25th Anniversary. Emmy nominated ULTIMATE AIR JAWS and AIR JAWS APOCALYPSE were both facilitated by Apex Shark Expeditions and will be kicking off Shark W...

Seal Island, False Bay is home to the most intense Natural Predatory behaviour between Great White Sharks and Cape fur seals. Since 1996 Chris our team have collected various data points from each predatory event. These events now number close to...

South Africa is home to the Big 5, incredible landscapes iconic landmarks and open space, and lying just offshore some truly remarkable marine mega fauna. There can be few places, if any, where you can see the big 5 on land and the likes of Gre...

Air Jaws Apocalypse and How Jaws Changed the World Shark Week 2012 on Discovery Channel will start the annual week long series of shark shows on 12 August 2012 at 9pm Eastern/Pacific in the USA. The 25th Anniversary of Shark Week kicks off w...

You may all remember me writing in April last year about how we were on the lookout for Orcas in False Bay. In April 2009 and 2010 we had the very good fortune to see a number of pods in False Bay and as such we were really hoping to pick up on th...

This is not a shark related blog but since we have so many nature wildlife enthusiasts that follow us I felt I had to share this enormously heart-warming story I come from a family of animal lovers so of course when I met with my cousin Tony rec...

At 10h45 we located roughly 500 common dolphin 1NM NW of Seal Island heading in a NW direction. Earlier en route to Seal Island we located a small splinter group of roughly 15 common dolphin 5 NM W of SI. These dolphins were not at all interested ...

This was our 4th encounter in False Bay with the group of 4 since 2009 (now known to us as A pod) that includes two very noticeable individuals, Mannemerak, the friendly female orca ( often bow rides or stern rides) with the bulbous hump on her do...

Chris did not start out to be a shark or wildlife photographer. Rather his passion comes first from spending time with nature. Of course being one of the first people to document Great White sharks breaching gave way to the opportunity of also cap...

We just received tragic news that a very large 4.3 meter (14 foot) female Great white shark was caught and drowned in a whelk fishing net off Fish Hoek beach today. There has been a fishing licence issued for whelk that allows the fishermen to use...