Every summer Chris I aim to try and dive with this normally shy species of shark. They live in temperate waters and can be found in the kelp forests, shallow bays and off sandy beaches. They are endemic to Southern Africa but are cousins to the A...
Neurotoxins In Shark Fins: A Human Health Concern MIAMI (February 23, 2012) -- Sharks are among the most threatened of marine species worldwide due to unsustainable overfishing. Sharks are primarily killed for their fins alone, to fuel the gro...
When is Shark Week Discovery Channels Shark Week is a weeklong series of programs that focuses solely on, you guessed it, Sharks! If you are a shark fanatic you pretty much hole up and dont venture out the house during this week as you engross yo...
Many tourists and wildlife fanatics visit Cape Town with their number 1 priority to go shark cage diving with one of the oceans most formidable predators, The Great White Shark. In fact tourism stats show that over 40,000 people participate in cag...
Intro In this next edition of six blogs we will be celebrating the magnificent marine wildlife that can be found in False Bay. The feature will highlight the mega predators of False Bay, their dependence on the bay and interconnectivity with othe...
Persuading large gamefish to take a lure or well presented bait can be difficult at times. Now try getting close enough to these turbo charged machines without hooking them to take a photograph and you will find that this becomes an even more chal...
PART ONE Despite Seal Island False Bay being little more than 30 minutes drive from Cape Town, South Africas 3rd largest city, one of the worlds great wildlife phenomena had remained a secret up until 1997. On the 22nd August 1997 from the van...
The fact that Peter Bencheley purposefully chose to further heighten our fear of the Great white Shark by choosing night time as the scene for the opening attack and setting the trend for the rest of the book is significant. To the uneducated the...
The weather report promised great conditions off Cape Point so we were really excited to head off on one of Apex's pelagic tripsinto the marine life rich Agulhas Current yesterday. The water was 17 degrees Celsius at Cape Point and at about 25 mil...
I have had a bit of a shark drought since the Great white shark season ended at Seal Island in mid-September so when we had the opportunity to do some filming in Gansbaai I was really excited to see and cage dive with the great whites again. We h...