Wishing everyone the best for 2004. Apologies for the delay in the newsletter, but I have found it difficult to get back into work mode, as I am sure many of you have too! During this time of the year up until about early June we concentrate ou...

Dear Readers This month you will not only be hearing about sharks, but an incredible adventure with highs and about events that could have ended worse than they did. For many years it had been a dream of Chriss to explore the waters around cert...

Dear Shark Lovers As many South Africans will be aware, a 19 year-old body boarder was the tragic victim of a great white shark attack at Noordhoek Beach, Cape Town in mid-September. A woman, whilst swimming amongst a pod of sea lions, was also...

August has (finally!) brought with it the Cape Town winter weather which in turn seemed to bring about very good conditions for the sharks to predate in. This was very relieving for us to see as the previous months activity has been so much lower ...

Hello Shark Lovers! We have had an interesting month where most of the month has been very slow compared to what we usually see, but towards the end of the month activity has sky rocketed, taking us all by surprise. Up until July 25th we were ...

Greetings Shark Lovers! The longer I am involved in sharks and nature, the more I am convinced that one can never count on knowing anything for sure about these animals. In the eight years that we have been observing white sharks at Seal Island...

Hello Shark Byte Readers! May has been a surprising month with both highs and lows! When I say highs, I am referring to our pelagic trips with the Mako and Blue sharks. In the two previous seasons of us conducting these trips we have not been ...

Dear Shark Lovers The windless days that are supposed to characterise the month of April finally came true towards the end of the month and we were able to get out into the deep on quite a few occasions. As we get the closer to our winter, t...

HELLO SHARK LOVERS! We have had a fantastic shark month where we have been playing with a whole host of different shark species. We started the month with what I can only recall as the most exhilarating shark dive I have ever had. With perfect...

In July 2000 we experienced an event that we believe few people in the world have ever witnessed. A whale carcass had drifted into False Bay and after some persuasion from our side the authorities decided to tow the carcass to Seal Island to let t...